Michael Edwards

Edwards worked across writer, literary critic, professor, poet and translator and 1 further recorded occupations. This article rests on 154 published texts and 31 scholarly references drawn from named institutional registers. Every statement below returns to a source shown in the evidence panel; where the record is silent or divided, the article says so instead of resolving it.

Michael Edwards studied at Christ's College and Kingston Grammar School. The recorded working language is French and English. The field of work recorded is English-language literature and French literature. Employment is recorded with University of Warwick, Collège de France and University of Sussex. Positions recorded include member of the Académie française. Distinctions recorded are Officer of the Order of the British Empire, Knight of the Legion of Honour, Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres and Dagnan-Bouveret Prize.

• Name — Sir Michael Edwards • Honorific Suffix — OBE • Born — 29 April 1938 • Birthplace — London, United Kingdom • Education — Kingston Grammar School Christ's College, Cambridge • Occupation — Poet Academic • Known for — Member, Académie Française • Illustration — Insignia of a Knight Bachelor

Born in Barnes, SW London, Edwards was educated at Kingston Grammar School and Christ's College, Cambridge, where he read French and Spanish. He wrote his doctoral thesis on Jean Racine, completing it in Paris. He was the longtime professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Warwick until 2002, when he was elected to a professorial chair for the Study of Literary Creation in the English Language at the Collège de France. Edwards was elected to one of the 40 seats in the Académie Française on 21 February 2013, becoming the first English person to be so honoured. He had been nominated previously in 2008, when he received the second highest number of votes in the fourth and final round of voting (eight votes, behind Michel Schneider who received 10) but since no candidate secured a majority the seat then remained vacant.

Michael Edwards was born on 29 April 1938 in Barnes. Edwards held the nationality of United Kingdom and France. Edwards was educated at Christ's College and Kingston Grammar School. Edwards worked as writer, literary critic, professor and poet, and the authority record catalogues a further 2 occupations under the same name, among them translator and university teacher. Edwards held the posts of seat 31 of the Académie française (2013). Edwards was employed by University of Warwick, Collège de France and University of Sussex. Edwards worked in French and English.

Knighted in the 2014 New Year Honours for "services to British–French cultural relations", Sir Michael has received the following honours: • Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur • Commandeur de l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres • OBE • Knight Bachelor