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Professor John Fletcher

Emeritus Professor of French

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Professor Fletcher is the author, co-author, editor or translator of some twenty books on modern writers including Flaubert, Beckett, Robbe-Grillet, Claude Simon and Iris Murdoch. He recently translated a critical study of Hervé Guibert and is currently working on the novelist and playwright Marie NDiaye. His reviews of recent French publications appear regularly in the the Times Literary Supplement. He has researched extensively on French film and on twentieth-century French history. He is also an authority on twentieth-century poetry in English (especially Wilfred Owen, Philip Larkin, John Hewitt and Bob Dylan).

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French, School of European Culture and Languages, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, CT2 7NF

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Last Updated: 09/10/2012