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David Bellos

David Bellos is professor of French and Italian and comparative literature at Princeton, and author of Is that a Fish in your Ear?

July 2024

  • Headline<br>Acclaimed Albanian writer Ismail Kadare before speaking at the Edinburgh International Book Festival 2006. Scotland, United Kingdom 19 August 2006

    Ismail Kadare obituary

    One of Albania’s greatest writers who explored the ugliness and dignity of this ancient and long-oppressed nation

November 2014

  • Georges Perec

    Point of view
    How Georges Perec’s lost first novel has finally come to be published

    Discovered in a wardrobe, Perec’s previously unpublished Portrait of a Man is as infuriating as it is brilliant, writes David Bellos

August 2013

  • Spanish Lesson on Chalkboard dog

    A-level languages: is Britain at risk of turning into a nation of monoglots?

    David Bellos
    David Bellos: As the learning of foreign languages at A-level and university falls sharply, the British seem set on isolation from the world

November 2011

  • Anton Chekov

    The cool twists of language

    David Bellos
    David Bellos: Guardian letter writers have been enjoying dissecting the word 'cool' – it may have had a surprising path to its modern meaning
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