Editing Graham Robb (section)

== Biography ==
Born at [[Manchester]], Robb attended the [[Royal Grammar School, Worcester]], before going up to [[Exeter College, Oxford]] to read [[Modern language|Modern Languages]], graduating with [[first-class honours]] in 1981 ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA (Oxon)]] proceeding [[Master of Arts (Oxford, Cambridge, and Dublin)|MA]]).
In 1982, Robb entered [[Goldsmiths, University of London|Goldsmiths' College, London]] to undertake [[teacher training]],{{cn|date=March 2025}} before pursuing postgraduate studies at [[Vanderbilt University]] in [[Nashville, Tennessee|Tennessee]] where he received a [[PhD]] in [[French literature]]. He was then awarded a [[Research fellow|junior research fellowship]] at [[Exeter College, Oxford|Exeter College]] in the [[University of Oxford]] (1987–1990),<ref>[http://www.exeter.ox.ac.uk/sites/exeter/files/publications/rectors-and-fellows.pdf ''Rectors and Fellows of Exeter College, Oxford'', 1901-2005] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304030426/http://www.exeter.ox.ac.uk/sites/exeter/files/publications/rectors-and-fellows.pdf |date=4 March 2016 }}</ref> before leaving academia.
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Robb won the [[1997 Whitbread Awards|1997]] [[Whitbread Book Award|Whitbread Best Biography Award]] for ''[[Victor Hugo]]'', and was shortlisted for the [[Samuel Johnson Prize]] for ''[[Arthur Rimbaud|Rimbaud]]'' in 2001. ''Unlocking Mallarmé'' had won the [[Modern Language Association]] [[Award|Prize]] for Independent Scholars in 1996. All three of his [[biographies]] (''[[Victor Hugo]]'', ''[[Rimbaud]]'' and ''[[Balzac]]''<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.v1.paris.fr/commun/v2asp/musees/balzac/furne/bibliobalz.htm |title=Balzac: ''La Comédie humaine'' (edn critique en ligne) |language=fr |access-date=6 September 2015 |archive-date=11 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180711054112/http://www.v1.paris.fr/commun/v2asp/musees/balzac/furne/bibliobalz.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>) became ''[[The New York Times]]'' "Best Books of the Year". ''[[The Discovery of France]]'' by Robb won the [[Duff Cooper Prize]] in 2007 and the [[Royal Society of Literature|RSL]] [[Ondaatje Prize]] in 2008. 

Elected a [[Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature]] in 1998, Dr Robb was appointed a Chevalier of the [[Ordre des Arts et des Lettres]] in 2009. Following the publication of his French translation of ''Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris'', he was awarded the [[Medal of the City of Paris]] in 2012.

Robb married [[academic]] Margaret Hambrick in 1986.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=neKm1X6YPY0C&dq=graham+robb+international+who%27s+who&pg=PA1419 International Who's Who (2004)]</ref>

In ''The Discovery of Middle Earth: Mapping the Lost World of the Celts'' (2013), he argues that the [[ancient Celts]] organized their territories, determined the locations of settlements and battles, and set the trajectories of tribal migrations by establishing a network of solstice lines based on an extension of the Greek system of ''[[Climata|klimata]]''; as evidence he presented his interpretations of artistic geometries, road surveying, centuriations and what he saw as pre-Roman alignments.