Patrick McGuinness

1968–

Poet, novelist and academic born in Tunisia to a Belgian mother and an English father, and brought up largely in Belgium. Educated at Cambridge, York and Oxford, he became professor of French and comparative literature at Oxford and a fellow of St Anne’s College. His poetry collections include The Canals of Mars and Blood Feather. His first novel, The Last Hundred Days (2011), set in Bucharest as Ceaușescu’s regime collapsed, won the Wales Book of the Year. His memoir Other People’s Countries won the Duff Cooper Prize. The Last Hundred Days was longlisted for the 2011 Man Booker Prize.

Timeline of Patrick McGuinness’s life

Works

• The Last Hundred Days (2011)

Prizes

• The Last Hundred Days — The Booker Prize 2011: Longlist