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David Bellos

British translator and author · United Kingdom · On the map · Writers · Lived 1945 to 2025 · aged 80

David Michael Bellos was a British academic, translator and biographer. He was the Meredith Howland Pyne professor of French and comparative literature at Princeton University in the United States, and was the co-founder and first director, from 2007, of its translation and intercultural communication program.

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A typical day, 30 days to 17 June 2026

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Awards

International Booker Prize2005
Bourse Goncourt de la Biographie1994

About this person

Country
United Kingdom
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1945 to 2025 · aged 80

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