WINNER OF THE PRIX LEO BEECKMAN 2023
Patrick McGuinness is a prize-winning author and Professor of Comparative Literature (University of Oxford). He was awarded the Prix Léo Beeckman, or Espiègle du rayonnement des Lettres belges by the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, on Monday November 20th, 2023. He was the keynote lecturer at the 2023 CLIC Day 'Brussels in the Literary and Artistic Landscape' on November 24th, where he also read and discussed his poetry.
On November 23rd, he led a creative writing workshop for PhD students. He also was a guest lecturer in the BA-course 'Literature, Society and the City', where he discussed British and French poets and their depictions of the city.
Patrick McGuinness has published novels and volumes of poetry, which have been awarded numerous prizes:
In 2012, his novel The Last Hundred Days received the Wales Book of the Year Award and the Writers’ Guild Award for Fiction. The French translation of this novel, also published in 2012 as Les cent derniers jours, received the Prix du Premier Roman Étranger and was shortlisted for the Prix Médicis étranger and the Prix Femina étranger. His 2014 book Other People’s Countries won the Duff Cooper Prize and the Welsh Book of the Year Award and his 2020 novel Throw Me to the Wolves won the Encore Award.
In addition, he was awarded the Prix Léo Beeckman, or Espiègle du rayonnement des Lettres belges by the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles on Monday November 21st, 2023.
About the author:
Patrick McGuinness is a Professor of French and Comparative Literature at St Anne’s College at the University of Oxford. He specializes in 19th, 20th and 21st century French literature, especially poetry and theatre, and has worked on French and Belgian Symbolism. He translated the work of Symbolist poets such as Stéphane Mallarmé. He has also studied Belgian literature in French, Anglo-American Modernism, modern poetry in English and in French, and translation studies.
