Patrick McGuinness
Patrick McGuinness (* 1968 in Tunisia ) is a British writer (poetry, novels) and literary scholar. He is Professor of Comparative Literary History and French at Oxford and a Fellow and Tutor at St. Ann's College.
His mother was Belgian, his father English with Irish roots. He grew up in Belgium, but also in Venezuela, Iran, Romania, France and Great Britain.
In 2004 his first volume of poetry, The canals of Mars, was published . In 2007, 19th Century Blues and Jilted City followed in 2010.
His first novel The Abolition of Chance (The last hundred days) was a finalist in the 2011 Booker Prize (and received the Prix du premier roman ) and is about an English student in the final stages of the Ceausescu regime in Romania, although he was also on his own Experience gained during this time in Romania.
As a literary scholar, he published on the critic TE Hulme , French symbolists, Joris-Karl Huysmans , translated Stéphane Mallarmé and Hélène Dorion and edited works by Lynette Roberts and Marcel Schwob .
In 2009 he was Chevalier des Ordre des Palmes Académiques and in 2012 Chevalier des Ordre des Arts et des Lettres . For the novel Throw Me to the Wolves he was awarded the Encore Award for the second novel in 2020 .
McGuinness works in Oxford but lives in Caernarfon in North West Wales.
Works
Novels:
- The Abolition of Chance, Zsolnay 2012
- Throw Me to the Wolves . Jonathan Cape, 2019
Lyric:
- Guide bleu, éditions Fario, 2015
- Jilted City, Carcanet, 2010
- 19th Century Blues, The Poetry Business, 2006
- The Canals of Mars, Carcanet, 2004
Autobiography:
- Other people's countries: a journey into memory . Jonathan Cape 2014 (received the Duff Cooper Prize 2014)
Literary Studies:
- Poetry and Radical Politics in Fin de Siecle France: From Anarchism to Action Francaise, Oxford University Press, 2015
- Maurice Maeterlinck and the Making of Modern Theater, Oxford University Press, 1999
As editor:
- Anthologie de la poésie symboliste et décadente, Les Belles Lettres, 2001
- with Nathalie Aubert, Pierre-Philippe Fraiture: La Belgique entre deux siècles: Laboratoire de la modernité, 1880-1914, Le Romantisme et après en Franc, Peter Lang, 2007
- Symbolism, Decadence and the fin de siècle: French and European Perspectives, University of Exeter Press, 2000
- with Nathalie Aubert, Pierre-Philippe Fraiture: From Art Nouveau to Surrealism: Belgian Modernity in the Making, Legenda, 2007
Web links
- Literature by and about Patrick McGuinness in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Homepage in Oxford
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Encore Award , rsliterature.org, accessed on June 25, 2020
- ↑ Encore Award 2020 The Shortlist , accessed June 25, 2020 (pdf)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | McGuinness, Patrick |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British literary scholar and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1968 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tunisia |