Patrick French
Patrick French OBE (* 1966 ) is a British historian and literary scholar who was awarded both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Hawthornden Prize for his biography of the Nobel Prize winner in literature V. S. Naipaul .
Life
After attending school, studied French English and American literature at the University of Edinburgh and then worked as a historian and literary scholar.
In 1997 his book Liberty or Death: India's Journey to Independence and Division was published , in which he described the division of India into India and Pakistan due to the so-called Radcliffe Line in 1947 and the previous riots in Calcutta in 1946 as well as the then leading politicians like Muhammad Ali Jinnah portrayed. In 2004 he released with Younghusband. The Last Great Imperial Adventurer is a biography of the British officer and explorer Francis Younghusband , who was the first European to cross the Muztagh Pass . After Tibet, Tibet: A Personal History Of A Lost Land was published in 2003 , he was honored with the Order of the British Empire .
For the 2009 published biography of the Nobel laureate VS Naipaul entitled The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of VS Naipaul , he was honored with both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Hawthornden Prize. His last book, India: A Portrait. An intimate biography of 1.2 bilion people published.
Web links
- Literature by and about Patrick French in the catalog of the German National Library
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| SURNAME | French, Patrick |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British historian and literary scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1966 |