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British author (born 1958)
Stephen Clarke
(born 15 October 1958) is a British author.
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He writes mainly about France.
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He published six
novels
featuring a British protagonist named Paul West.
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Career
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Before writing books, Clarke wrote comedy sketches for
BBC Radio 4
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and
comic-book
stories for the U.S. cartoonist and comics artist
Gilbert Shelton
. Having graduated from
Oxford University
he spent several years working in
Glasgow
as a bilingual
lexicographer
for the dictionary firm
HarperCollins
. He then moved to work for a French press group.
Works
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On 1 April 2004 Clarke successfully
self-published
A Year in the Merde
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It found attention in France too.
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Later Clarke sold the rights to
Transworld
in the UK,
Bloomsbury Publishing
PLC in the United States,
Penguin
in Canada and
Random House
in Australia. It was eventually published in altogether about 20 languages.
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The sequel
Merde Actually
appeared in 2005, and was followed by a non-fiction book (
Talk to the Snail
, a humorous guide to the
French language
and the
French
) in
2006
. The third novel about Paul West was published in July 2007 in Great Britain and one year later in the USA:
Merde Happens
,
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This time
Englishman
Paul West explores the United States instead of France. Clarke's fourth novel
Dial M for Merde
played again in France (this time
South of France
) and was published in the UK on 10 September 2008. The fifth novel
The Merde Factor
about Paul West returning to Paris was published on 13 September 2012.
Stephen Clarke's second non-fiction offering,
1000 Years of Annoying the French
,
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was published in the United Kingdom on 18 March 2010. It concentrates on conflicts between the French and the
English
over the past ten centuries,
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In Amazon.co.uk's bestseller lists, at one point the book was simultaneously at number 4 in the history chart and number one in humour.
Bibliography
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Fiction
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The 'Merde' Series
Stand-alone
- A Brief History of the Future
(2011)
What if teleportation was really possible? Englishman Richie Fisher is about to find out...
Non-fiction
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References
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"Stephen Clarke"
. Retrieved
6 December
2015
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"J'adore vivre en France, parce que, ici, on travaille pour vivre, et pas le contraire"
. Retrieved
15 April
2011
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"Inspired partly by the culture shock on his arrival in Paris in September 2002"
. Retrieved
11 April
2011
.
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"What I love... about the French"
. Retrieved
11 April
2011
.
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"... decrit le pays sans complaisance, par les yeux d'un Britannique qui debarque sur l'etrange planete France et cherche a y survivre"
. Retrieved
15 April
2011
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"As long as you can speak some French, the Parisians think you're a cross between David Beckham and Hugh Grant"
. Retrieved
11 April
2011
.
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permanent dead link
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"Stephen Clarke is a British journalist who has written comedy sketches for the BBC"
. Archived from
the original
on 12 April 2011
. Retrieved
11 April
2011
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"A Year in the Merde, originally became a word-of-mouth hit in Paris in 2004"
. Retrieved
11 April
2011
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"L'intrigue n'est finalement que secondaire car ce qui ressort particulierement du livre, c'est l'humour typiquement anglais de l'auteur"
. Retrieved
29 May
2011
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"I concentrate mostly on fish out of water stories, because that's what I am"
. Retrieved
11 April
2011
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"Surviving as an international creative person"
. Retrieved
11 April
2011
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"Merde happens"
. Archived from
the original
on 14 March 2011
. Retrieved
11 April
2011
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"Stephen Clarke, author of the bestselling 1000 Years of Annoying the French"
. Archived from
the original
on 4 July 2011
. Retrieved
11 April
2011
.
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"Which cliches about the British and the French need to be eradicted?"
. Retrieved
11 April
2011
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