Stuart Bell (writer)
Stuart Bell (born 1987) is a writer, editor and translator of French literature.
Background
Stuart Bell was born in Hartlepool, County Durham. He sat A-levels in French, German, English and History, then read 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][7][8] as well as reviewing books on European film.[9]
Awards and honours
In 2022 Bell was shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize for his translation of Bird me.[10]
Also in 2022 his translation of Yo-yo Heart was selected by the Poetry Book Society as their Winter Translation Choice.[11]
Publications
Edited books
2026 – (Ed. & M. Harrod & A. Phillips) French Cinema: Stardom, Gender and Popular Film (Legenda)
2024 – (Ed.) On Feminist Films (the87press)
2021 – (Ed.) Moving Impressions: Essays on Art and Experience (the87press)
Translated books
2023 – 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
- ^ "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://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/abs/10.1093/fs/knad164
- ^ Bell, Stuart (2025). "Refusing 'postnational' femininity: Fanny Ardant, export French 'seductress'". French Screen Studies: 1–17. doi:10.1080/26438941.2025.2488163.
- ^ https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Comebacks/n0sG0QEACAAJ?hl=en
- ^ Bell, Stuart (31 July 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.