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Arise Chevalier McGuinness

Carcanet poet, editor and translator Patrick McGuinness has been named a Chevalier dans L'ordre des palmes académiques by the French government, for his services to the teaching of French literature. One of France's highest cultural accolades, the award recognises those who have made a significant contribution to the expansion of French culture across the world.

Patrick McGuinness is a fellow of St Anne's College, University of Oxford, where he lectures in French. He has written extensively on French literature and in 2003 Carcanet published his translation from the French of For Anatole's Tomb by Stephane Mallarme. McGuinness is also the editor of the Collected Poems and the Diaries, Letters and Recollections of the Welsh modernist poet Lynette Roberts (available from Carcanet). McGuinness's first collection of poems, The Canals of Mars, was published by Carcanet in 2004. His second, Balkan Weather, will appear next spring.