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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