Peter France

Peter France was born in Northern Ireland of Welsh parents and has lived at various places in England, France and Canada. He is now based in Edinburgh, where he was professor of French from 1980 to 2000. He has written many studies of French and Russian literature (including Poets of Modern Russia, 1982), and is the editor of the Oxford Guide to Literature in English Translation and general editor of the five-volume Oxford History of Literary Translation in English. He has translated French and Russian prose texts as well as several volumes of Russian poetry – Blok and Pasternak (both with Jon Stallworthy), Mayakovsky, Lermontov, Mandelstam, and in particular Gennady Aygi. He is married to the historian and translator Siân Reynolds.

(2015)