5 Jun 2017 12:30pm - 2:00pm CRASSH Meeting Room, Alison Richard Building

Description

Unfortunately this meeting has had to be cancelled. The last work in progress meeting of the term will take place on Monday 12 June.

Part of the CRASSH Fellows Work in Progress Seminar Series.  All welcome but please email Michelle Maciejewska to book your place and to request readings.  A sandwich lunch and refreshments are provided.

Dr Patrick French

 

About

Dr Patrick French is a CRASSH Visiting Fellow in Easter Term 2017. Patrick was previously a Fellow at CRASSH in Easter 2016.

He has a PhD in South Asian Studies and an MA in English Literature from Edinburgh University.  His current research interests include identity politics and the use of the past; the theory of biography; dynasty in contemporary Indian political parties; and the later world history of the British empire. While at CRASSH, he will be working on the authorised biography of the Nobel laureate Doris Lessing.

Patrick’s books include India: A Portrait 2011, London: Allen Lane; New York: Knopf; New Delhi: Penguin; Lisbon: Temas e Debates (Portuguese); Amsterdam: Atlas (Dutch); Delhi: Penguin (Hindi); Barcelona: Duomo (Spanish); The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul 2008, London: Picador; New York: Knopf; Barcelona: Duomo (Spanish); Beijing: CITIC (Chinese); Antwerp: Atlas (Dutch); Tibet, Tibet: A Personal History of a Lost Land 2003, London: Harper Collins; New York: Knopf; Moscow: ACT (Russian): Paris: Albin Michel (French); Prague: BB Art (Czech); New Delhi: Penguin (Hindi); Prague: Ushuaia (Polish); Liberty or Death: India’s Journey to Independence and Division 1997, London: Harper Collins; New Delhi: Harper Collins; New Delhi: Penguin (Hindi); Amsterdam: Atlas (Dutch); Younghusband: The Last Great Imperial Adventurer 1994, London: Harper Collins; Milano: Sperling & Kupfer (Italian); Malaysia: Marco Polo (Chinese). He is a winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Hawthornden Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award, the Royal Society of Literature WH Heinemann Prize and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, and was a finalist for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the History Today Book of the Year award and the Samuel Johnson Prize.

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