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Gavin Bowd

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Bio

Gavin Bowd teaches French at St Andrews University. He has written widely on Scottish, French, and Romanian culture and politics. He is also a poet, fiction writer, and journalist. He is the translator of Michel Houllebecq’s novels The Possibility of an Island and The Map and the Territory, and has been shortlisted for the prestigious International Dublin Literary Award.

Gavin Bowd Books

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Unreconciled

Michel Houellebecq
The Last Communard book cover

The Last Communard

Gavin Bowd
The Map and the Territory book cover

The Map and the Territory

Michel Houellebecq
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The Possibility of an Island

Michel Houellebecq
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