Joanna Richardson
Posted at 9:10AM Thursday 13 Mar 2008
Joanna Richardson, who died on March 7 aged 82, was a translator and literary critic and a prolific biographer of major figures of 19th- and early 20th-century French and English literature; she also became, in 1989, the first non-French winner of the Prix Goncourt, one of the highest literary awards in France.
Obituary in The Telegraph
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