LC control no. | n 50003547 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Fletcher, John, 1937- |
Variant(s) | Fletcher, John Walter James, 1937- |
Biography/History note | M.A. |
Associated country | Great Britain |
Birth date | 1937-06-23 |
Field of activity | French literature--Study and teaching English poetry |
Affiliation | University of Kent |
Profession or occupation | College teachers Translators |
Special note | Formerly on undifferentiated name record nb90093432 |
Found in | His The novels of Samuel Beckett, 1964. The Red Cross and the Holocaust, 1999: t.p. (edited and translated by John Fletcher) BL author letter received 18 October 2000 (John Walter James Fletcher, born 23 June 1937) Three strong women, 2012: ECIP t.p. (John Fletcher) bk. jkt. (he teaches at the University of Kent) University of Kent website, viewed 10 July 2018: staff (Professor John Fletcher, Honorary Senior Research Fellow in French: Professor Fletcher is the author, co-author, editor or translator of some twenty books on modern writers including Flaubert, Beckett, Robbe-Grillet, Claude Simon and Iris Murdoch. He recently translated a critical study of HerveĢ Guibert and is currently working on the novelist and playwright Marie NDiaye. His reviews of recent French publications appear regularly in the the Times Literary Supplement. He has researched extensively on French film and on twentieth-century French history. He is also an authority on twentieth-century poetry in English (especially Wilfred Owen, Philip Larkin, John Hewitt and Bob Dylan.) |
Associated language | eng fre |