Graham Robb

Graham Robb (born 1958) is a British author.

Robb was born in Manchester and educated at the Royal Grammar School Worcester and Exeter College, Oxford, where he studied Modern Languages. He earned a PhD in French literature at Vanderbilt University.

He won the 1997 Whitbread Book Award for best biography ("Victor Hugo") and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for "Rimbaud" in 2001. In 2007, he won the Duff Cooper Prize for "The Discovery of France".

On April 28, 2008 he was awarded the £10,000 Ondaatje Prize by the Royal Society of Literature in London for "The Discovery of France".

Bibliography

*"Baudelaire: Lecteur de Balzac" (1988), ISBN 2-7143-0279-3 fr icon
*"Baudelaire" (1989), ISBN 0-241-12458-1, translation of 1987 French text by Claude Pichois
*"La Poésie de Baudelaire et la poésie française, 1838-1852" (1993), ISBN 2-7007-1657-4, criticism fr icon
*"Balzac: A Biography" (1994), ISBN 0-330-33237-6
*"Unlocking Mallarmé" (1996), ISBN 0-03-000648-1
*"Victor Hugo" (1997), ISBN 0-330-33707-6
*"Rimbaud" (2000), ISBN 0-330-48282-3
*"Strangers: Homosexual Love in the 19th Century" (2003), ISBN 0-330-48223-8
*"The Discovery of France. A Historical Geography from the Revolution to the First World War." (2007), Illustrated, 454 pp. WW Norton and Co.