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Patrick McGuinness
Patrick McGuinness (born 1968) is a British academic, critic, novelist, and poet. He is a professor of French and comparative literature at the University of Oxford, where he is fellow and tutor at St Anne's College.
He is a Chevalier in the Order of the Arts et Lettres, awarded by the French government, as well as a Chevalier in the Order of the Palmes académiques, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and was elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales in 2011.
McGuinness was born in Tunisia in 1968 to a Belgian mother and an English father of Irish descent from Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He grew up in Belgium and also lived for periods in Venezuela, Iran, Romania and the UK.[citation needed] He studied for a bachelor's degree in English Language and Literature at the University of Cambridge and a master's degree in American Studies (Ezra Pound and French Symbolism) at the University of York before going on to a DPhil in French theatre at the University of Oxford.
McGuinness's production is divided between literary criticism and fiction, memoir and poetry.
McGuinness is a Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Oxford, and Fellow in French at St Anne's College, Oxford, and was formerly Fellow in French at Jesus College, Oxford and a Junior Fellow at The Queen's College. Before that, he was a lecturer in English at Magdalen College, Oxford, and taught briefly in the English department at the University of Warwick. Among his academic publications there is a study of T. E. Hulme, an English literary critic and poet who was influenced by Bergson and who, in turn, had a strong influence on English modernism. He is the author of a book on the Belgian playwright Maurice Maeterlinck and modern theatre, and a book on poetry and radical politics in late 19th C France. He has also translated Stéphane Mallarmé, a major symbolist poet, and edited an anthology in French of symbolist and decadent poetry.
McGuinness edited two volumes of the Argentinian-Welsh poet and novelist Lynette Roberts, who was highly appreciated by T. S. Eliot and Robert Graves. According to McGuinness, Roberts "might fairly be claimed to be our greatest female war poet" whose work "constitutes one of the most imaginative poetic responses to modern war and the home front in the English language."
McGuinness published his first poetry collection, The Canals of Mars, in 2004. His poems have appeared in numerous anthologies and translated anthologies of British and Irish poetry.
His first novel, The Last Hundred Days (2011) was centred on the end of the Ceaușescus' regime in Romania, and was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award; a French version was published under the title Les Cent Derniers Jours. It won the Writers' Guild Award for Fiction and the Wales Book of the Year. He won Wales Book of the Year a second time, in 2015, for his memoir Other People's Countries.
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Patrick McGuinness
Patrick McGuinness (born 1968) is a British academic, critic, novelist, and poet. He is a professor of French and comparative literature at the University of Oxford, where he is fellow and tutor at St Anne's College.
He is a Chevalier in the Order of the Arts et Lettres, awarded by the French government, as well as a Chevalier in the Order of the Palmes académiques, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and was elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales in 2011.
McGuinness was born in Tunisia in 1968 to a Belgian mother and an English father of Irish descent from Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He grew up in Belgium and also lived for periods in Venezuela, Iran, Romania and the UK.[citation needed] He studied for a bachelor's degree in English Language and Literature at the University of Cambridge and a master's degree in American Studies (Ezra Pound and French Symbolism) at the University of York before going on to a DPhil in French theatre at the University of Oxford.
McGuinness's production is divided between literary criticism and fiction, memoir and poetry.
McGuinness is a Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Oxford, and Fellow in French at St Anne's College, Oxford, and was formerly Fellow in French at Jesus College, Oxford and a Junior Fellow at The Queen's College. Before that, he was a lecturer in English at Magdalen College, Oxford, and taught briefly in the English department at the University of Warwick. Among his academic publications there is a study of T. E. Hulme, an English literary critic and poet who was influenced by Bergson and who, in turn, had a strong influence on English modernism. He is the author of a book on the Belgian playwright Maurice Maeterlinck and modern theatre, and a book on poetry and radical politics in late 19th C France. He has also translated Stéphane Mallarmé, a major symbolist poet, and edited an anthology in French of symbolist and decadent poetry.
McGuinness edited two volumes of the Argentinian-Welsh poet and novelist Lynette Roberts, who was highly appreciated by T. S. Eliot and Robert Graves. According to McGuinness, Roberts "might fairly be claimed to be our greatest female war poet" whose work "constitutes one of the most imaginative poetic responses to modern war and the home front in the English language."
McGuinness published his first poetry collection, The Canals of Mars, in 2004. His poems have appeared in numerous anthologies and translated anthologies of British and Irish poetry.
His first novel, The Last Hundred Days (2011) was centred on the end of the Ceaușescus' regime in Romania, and was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award; a French version was published under the title Les Cent Derniers Jours. It won the Writers' Guild Award for Fiction and the Wales Book of the Year. He won Wales Book of the Year a second time, in 2015, for his memoir Other People's Countries.