Stuart Bell (writer)
Stuart Bell 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 and performed 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.Bell has translated novels, plays and poetry by francophone writers including Pascal Bruckner, Anne Goscinny, Édith Azam, Laura Doyle Péan and Emné Nasereddine.
In addition to his writing on fiction in translation, Bell has published on French cinema, as well as reviewing books on European film.
He is also the founder and host of the podcast series 'The French Cinema Room'.
Awards and honours
In 2022 Bell was shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize for his translation of Bird me.Also in 2022 his translation of Yo-yo Heart was selected by the Poetry Book Society as their Winter Translation Choice.
Publications
Edited books
2026 – French Cinema: Stardom, Gender and Popular Film2024 – On Feminist Films
2021 – ''Moving Impressions: Essays on Art and Experience''
Translated books
2023 – The Dance of the Fig Tree2022 – Yo-yo Heart
2021 – Bird me
2020 – The Softest Sleep
2019 – ''They Stole Our Beauty''