Stuart Bell (born 1987) is a writer, editor and translator of French literature.
Background
editStuart Bell was born in Hartlepool, County Durham. He studied Modern Languages at Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge. As an undergraduate, he wrote[1] and performed[2] in plays at the Corpus Playroom. He studied for a master’s degree at Birkbeck, University of London under film theorist Laura Mulvey, and later a PhD in French cinema at King’s College London for a thesis entitled ‘Co-stars as co-stagers’.[3]
Bell has translated novels, plays and poetry by francophone writers including Pascal Bruckner, Anne Goscinny, Édith Azam, Laura Doyle Péan[4] and Emné Nasereddine.[5] In addition to his writing on fiction in translation, Bell has published on French cinema,[6] as well as reviewing books on European film.[7]
Awards and honours
editIn 2022 Bell was shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize for his translation of Bird me.[8]
Also in 2022 his translation of Yo-yo Heart was selected by the Poetry Book Society as their Winter Translation Choice.[9]
Publications
editEdited books
edit2026 - (Ed. with M. Harrod & A. Phillips) French Cinema: Stars and Histories (Legenda)
2024 - (Ed.) On Feminist Films (the87press)
2021 - (Ed.) Moving Impressions: Essays on Art and Experience (the87press)
Translated books
edit2023 - The Dance of the Fig Tree (by Emné Nasereddine, introduced by Stuart Bell)
2022 - Yo-yo Heart (by Laura Doyle Péan, introduced by Stuart Bell)
2021 - Bird me (by Édith Azam, introduced by Stuart Bell)
2020 - The Softest Sleep (by Anne Goscinny, introduced by Emma Wilson)
2019 - They Stole Our Beauty (by Pascal Bruckner)
References
edit- ^ "The Freshers' Play - Tomato Pulp". Camdram.
- ^ https://archive.varsity.co.uk/636.pdf
- ^ "Stuart Bell". King's College London.
- ^ "Special Event on Queer Poetry: Poetry Workshop". occt.web.ox.ac.uk.
- ^ "Dance of the Fig Tree | Reading Length".
- ^ https://academic.oup.com/fs/article/77/4/587/7239852
- ^ Bell, Stuart (July 31, 2022). "Book Review: John Baxter, Charles Boyer: The French Lover (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2021)". Open Screens. 5 (1). doi:10.16995/OS.8958 – via www.openscreensjournal.com.
- ^ "Previous Prize Years". occt.web.ox.ac.uk.
- ^ "PBS Winter 2022". The Poetry Book Society.