12 Facts About Patrick McGuinness

Patrick McGuinness was born on 1968 and is a British academic, critic, novelist, and poet.

Patrick McGuinness is a professor of French and comparative literature at the University of Oxford, where he is fellow and tutor at St Anne's College.

Patrick McGuinness is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and was elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales in 2011.

Patrick McGuinness grew up in Belgium and lived for periods in Venezuela, Iran, Romania and the UK.

Patrick McGuinness studied for a bachelor's degree at the University of Cambridge and a master's degree at the University of York before going on to a DPhil at the University of Oxford.

Patrick McGuinness's production is divided between literary criticism and fiction, memoir and poetry.

Patrick McGuinness is a Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Oxford, and Fellow in French at St Anne's College, Oxford, formerly at Jesus College, Oxford.

Patrick McGuinness 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.

Patrick McGuinness has translated Stephane Mallarme, a major symbolist poet, and edited an anthology in French of symbolist and decadent poetry.

Patrick McGuinness published his first poetry collection, The Canals of Mars, in 2004.

Patrick McGuinness's poems have appeared in numerous anthologies and translated anthologies of British and Irish poetry.

Patrick McGuinness won Wales Book of the Year a second time, in 2015, for his memoir Other People's Countries.