2024 - Patrick McGuinness
Patrick McGuinness (1968) is a British novelist, poet and critic with Belgian and Irish roots.
Alongside writing, he teaches French and comparative literature at Oxford University. Well-known titles of his include the novels The Last Hundred Days (Seren, 2011) and Throw Me to the Wolves (Cape, 2019); the poetry collections The Canals of Mars (Carcanet, 2004), Jilted City (Carcanet, 2010) and Blood Feather (Cape, 2023), and the essay Other People’s Countries, about his childhood in his mother's Belgian hometown. In 2023, he received de Prix Triennal du Rayonnement des Lettres Belges (prix Léo Beeckman) for his contribution to the study and notoriety of French-language Belgian literature in the English-speaking world.
In 2013, Patrick McGuinness was already a first-time writer in residence at Passa Porta; one year later he gave a reading on the occasion of Passa Porta’s 10th anniversary. In 2024, the year of Passa Porta’s 20th anniversary, he returns to Brussels to work on a book featuring Ostend and Marvin Gaye. After his stay at Passa Porta he will continue his residency at the seaside, with our colleagues of De Letterie