George Craig

George Craig, Honorary Research Fellow, the University of Sussex, formerly Reader in French, The School of European Studies, University of Sussex. His distinguished scholarship includes a critical edition of Marguerite Duras, Des journées entières dans les arbres (1972), and with co-editor Margaret McGowan, Moy qui me voy: the Writer and the Self from Montaigne to Leiris (1989), together with essays on Hugo, Mallarmé, and Proust, and on reading.  He was for many years a regular contributor to the Times Literary Supplement. He brings unique personal credentials to his role as French translator: born and educated in Ireland, he followed in Beckett’s own academic pathway from Trinity College Dublin to the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. 

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