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Michael Edwards (literary scholar)






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Sir
Michael Edwards
Sir Michael Edwards
Born (1938-04-29) 29 April 1938 (age 86)
NationalityBritish
EducationKingston Grammar School
Alma materChrist's College, Cambridge
Occupation(s)Poet
Academic
Known forMember, Académie Française
Insignia of a Knight Bachelor

Sir Michael Edwards, OBE (born 29 April 1938) is an Anglo-French poet and academic.

Life[edit]

Born in Barnes, SW London,[1] Edwards was educated at Kingston Grammar School[1] and Christ's College, Cambridge, where he read French and Spanish. He wrote his doctoral thesisonJean Racine, completing it in Paris. He was the longtime professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Warwick until 2002, when he was elected to a professorial chair for the Study of Literary Creation in the English Language at the Collège de France.

Edwards was elected to one of the 40 seats in the Académie Française on 21 February 2013, becoming the first English person to be so honoured.[2][3] He had been nominated previously in 2008,[4] when he received the second highest number of votes in the fourth and final round of voting (eight votes, behind Michel Schneider who received 10) but since no candidate secured a majority the seat then remained vacant.[5][6]

Honours[edit]

Knighted in the 2014 New Year Honours for "services to British–French cultural relations",[7][8] Sir Michael has received the following honours:

Bibliography[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Chrisafis, Angelique (22 February 2013). "Magnifique! Académie française elects first British-born member". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 February 2015.
  • ^ "élection au fauteuil de M. Jean Dutourd". Académie française.
  • ^ "British poet becomes 'immortal' as he's chosen to guard French language". The Telegraph, 21 February 2013
  • ^ Lichfield, J. "Poet vies to be first Englishman accepted by Académie française", The Independent, 7 February 2008.
  • ^ "Double『élection blanche』à l'Académie française"[permanent dead link] Le Monde, 7 February 2008
  • ^ "Académie française news", Académie française, Actualités 2008
  • ^ "No. 60728". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2013. p. 2.
  • ^ www.theguardian.com
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