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British author and critic
Graham Macdonald Robb FRSL Manchester ) is a British author and critic specialising in French literature .[1]
Biography [ edit ]
Born at Manchester , Robb attended the Royal Grammar School, Worcester , before going up to Exeter College, Oxford to read Modern Languages , graduating with first-class honours in 1981 (BA (Oxon) proceeding MA Goldsmiths' College, London to undertake teacher training ,[2] Vanderbilt University in Tennessee where he received a PhD in French literature . He was then awarded a junior research fellowship at Exeter College in the University of Oxford (1987–1990),[3]
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Robb won the 1997 Whitbread Best Biography Award for Victor Hugo Samuel Johnson Prize for Rimbaud Unlocking Mallarmé had won the Modern Language Association Prize for Independent Scholars in 1996. All three of his biographies (Victor Hugo Rimbaud Balzac [4] The New York Times The Discovery of France Duff Cooper Prize in 2007 and the RSL Ondaatje Prize in 2008. In The Discovery of Middle Earth: Mapping the Lost World of the Celts (2013), he ventures that the ancient Celts organized their territories, determined the locations of settlements and battles, and set the trajectories of tribal migrations by establishing a network of solstice lines based on an extension of the Greek system of klimata [5]
Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1998, Dr Robb was appointed a Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2009. Following the publication of his French translation of Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris , he was awarded the Medal of the City of Paris in 2012.
Dr Robb and fellow academic , Margaret Hambrick, married in 1986.[6]
Bibliography [ edit ]
Le corsaire-satan en silhouette : le milieu journalistique de la jeunesse de Baudelaire (in French). 1985.
Baudelaire lecteur de Balzac (1988), ISBN 2-7143-0279-3 (in French)
Baudelaire (1989), ISBN 0-241-12458-1 , translation of 1987 French text by Prof. Claude Pichois
La Poésie de Baudelaire et la poésie française, 1838–1852 (1993), ISBN 2-7007-1657-4 , criticism (in French)
Balzac: A Biography (1994), ISBN 0-330-33237-6
Unlocking Mallarmé (1996), ISBN 0-03-000648-1
Victor Hugo (1997), ISBN 0-330-33707-6
Rimbaud (2000), ISBN 0-330-48282-3
Strangers: Homosexual Love in the 19th Century (2003), ISBN 0-330-48223-8
The Discovery of France. A Historical Geography from the Revolution to the First World War (2007), illustrated, 454 pp. W. W. Norton ISBN 0-393-05973-1
Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris (2010), W. W. Norton ISBN 978-0-393-06724-8
The Ancient Paths: Discovering the Lost Map of Celtic Europe , ISBN 0-330-53150-6 ; US title: The Discovery of Middle Earth: Mapping the Lost World of the Celts , ISBN 0-393-08163-X
Cols and Passes of the British Isles (2016), ISBN 978-1846148736
The Debatable Land: The Lost World Between Scotland and England (2018), ISBN 978-0393285321
France : an adventure history . 2022.[a]
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2007
Robb, Graham (June 28, 2007). "In his nightmare city". The New York Review of Books . 54 11 ): 52–54. Vargas Llosa, Mario . The temptation of the impossible : Victor Hugo and Les Misérables . Translated from the Spanish by John King.
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^ Rectors and Fellows of Exeter College, Oxford , 1901-2005Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine
^ "Balzac: La Comédie humaine (edn critique en ligne)" (in French). Archived from the original on 11 July 2018. Retrieved 6 September 2015 .
^ Exeter College, Oxford Archived 24 September 2015 at the Wayback Machine
^ International Who's Who (2004)
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