Patrick McGuinness author biography, plus links to books by Patrick McGuinness.

Patrick McGuinness

Patrick McGuinness was born in Tunisia in 1968 and lived in Bucharest in the years leading up to the Romanian revolution. He is a professor of French and comparative literature at Oxford University and a fellow of St. Anne's College. As a poet, he has won an Eric Gregory Award and Poetry magazine's Levinson Prize. His latest collection, Jilted City, was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. The Last Hundred Days was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. McGuinness lives between Oxford and North West Wales.

This biography was last updated on 05/22/2012.

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