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The Penguin Book of French Short Stories: 1: From Marguerite de Navarre to Marcel Proust

The Penguin Book of French Short Stories: 1: From Marguerite de Navarre to Marcel Proust

The Penguin Book of French Short Stories: 1: From Marguerite de Navarre to Marcel Proust Paperback / softback - 2018

by Patrick McGuinness

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  • Title The Penguin Book of French Short Stories: 1: From Marguerite de Navarre to Marcel Proust
  • Author Patrick McGuinness
  • Binding Paperback
  • Condition New
  • Pages 512
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Classic
  • Publication date 2018
  • Bookseller's Inventory # A9780241462003
  • ISBN 9780241462003 / 0241462002
  • Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.8 x 5.08 x 1.03 in (19.81 x 12.90 x 2.62 cm)
  • Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Quantity available 10

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About the author

Patrick McGuinness is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of St Anne's College. Born in Tunisia and raised in Belgium, he is a poet, novelist and translator. His novel The Last Hundred Days was longlisted for the 2011 Man Booker Prize and shortlisted for the 2011 Costa First Novel Award, and his second novel, Throw me to the Wolves, won the 2020 Encore Award. His other books include three collections of poems, The Canals of Mars (2004), Jilted City (2010), Blood Feather (2023) and a memoir, Other People's Countries (2015), which won the Duff Cooper Prize. He was made a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres in 2011, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

David Bellos is Meredith Howland Pyne Professor of French Literature at Princeton University, where he also teaches Comparative Literature. He is the author of many books and articles on nineteenth-century fiction, alongside biographies of three icons of French culture in the twentieth century: Georges Perec, Jacques Tati and Romain Gary. He is also a well-known translator and the author of Is That a Fish in Your Ear? The Amazing Adventure of Translation. David Bellos was recently awarded the medal of Officier de l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres for his services to French culture.

Ros Schwartz is an award-winning translator from French. Acclaimed for her new version of Antoine de Saint-Exupry's The Little Prince, published in 2010, she has over 100 fiction and non-fiction titles to her name.

The French government made Ros a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2009, and in 2017 she was awarded the Institute of Translation and Interpreting's John Sykes Memorial Prize for Excellence.

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