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Graham Robb

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June 02, 1958 in Manchester, The United Kingdom

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Biographies & Memoirs, Nonfiction

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Graham Macdonald Robb FRSL (born June 2, 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.

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Books by Graham Robb

Average rating: 3.88 · 1,848 ratings · 325 reviews · 17 distinct works

	Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris 3.59 avg rating — 457 ratings — published 2010 — 13 editions	My rating:
	The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography from the Revolution to the First World War 3.93 avg rating — 400 ratings — 9 editions	My rating:
	Rimbaud 4.22 avg rating — 220 ratings — published 2000 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century 3.88 avg rating — 91 ratings — published 2004 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Victor Hugo: A Biography 3.97 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 1997 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Balzac: A Biography 3.65 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1994 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Une histoire de Paris par ceux qui l'ont fait by Graham Robb, Isabelle Dominique Taudière (Traduction) 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	Baudelaire Lecteur De Balzac 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	My rating:
	Jazzsteps 1: Cassette 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1993	My rating:
	La Poesie de Baudelaire Et La Poesie Francaise, 1838-1852 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1993	My rating:

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“If the mystery can be reduced to one solution, it lies in a simple coincidence: Rimbaud's interest in his own work had survived the realization that the world would not be changed by verbal innovation. It did not survive the failure of all his adult relationships. He had always treated poems as a form of private communication. He gave his songs to chansonniers, his satires to satirists. Without a constant companion, he was writing in a void.”
― Graham Robb, Rimbaud

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