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Dr Gavin Bowd. Research areas. Scottish, British, Madagascan and Romanian cultural and political exchanges with France. French colonial and post-colonial geographies. Modern Romanian politics and culture. Communism and post-communism. Geopoetics. Mining and writing. Translation. Selected publications. Happy days in Tel-Aviv: chronicles.
Gavin Bowd is a Scottish linguist and poet. He spent his childhood in the Scottish Borders and Hong Kong, and studied and taught in Paris and St. Andrews. He now teaches in the School of Modern Languages at the University of St Andrews.
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Gavin Bowd has 37 books on Goodreads with 22632 ratings. Gavin Bowd’s most popular book is La carte et le territoire.
Gavin Bowd’s stunning narrative shows how an individual can be swept up in the fierce tides of history, and at the same time be defined by his own efforts to force those tides into a different, and better, course. Lejeune’s life captures war and revolution in a tumultuous period of European history.
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The weak resonance of Juppé’s slogan, with all its implications of despair, and the obsolete optimism of his predecessors, barely conceal the failure of an entire political class to deal with a pressing reality: la fracture sociale cutting up France.
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MA (1st Class Hons), French, University of St Andrews; PhD, The Poetry of Guillevic, University of St Andrews.
He was one of the founding directors of the StAnza poetry festival, and his poetry, fiction and translations have been widely published. He has written on Scottish and European literature and politics, with special interests in French and Romanian politics and culture.
