Stephen O'Shea
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Stephen Thomas O'Shea (born 16 July 1956) is an author, journalist, translator, lecturer from Toronto. He currently lives in Providence, Rhode Island, after having spent much of his adult life in Paris, Perpignan, and New York City. He is the author of several works of non-fiction, the most recent being The Alps: A Human History from Hannibal to Heidi and Beyond (Norton 2017). It was shortlisted in the UK for the Best Travel-Themed Writing Award of 2018..[1].
Early life and education[edit]
His family moved around a lot. O’Shea was raised in Ontario (Toronto, Ottawa, St. Thomas, Oshawa, Kingston, Cornwall), Quebec (Montreal), and Alberta (Calgary).
His undergraduate history studies took place at Queen’s University at Kingston (Ontario) and Université Laval (Quebec City). He received a B.A. in 1979. After moving to Paris in 1980, he obtained a Certificat d’Etudes Politiques from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in 1981. Study in international relations earned him a doctoral-level (3e cycle) Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies from the Université de Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne) in 1982. Until 1986, he was a lecturer at the Université de Paris 11 (Orsay), giving a course entitled Civilisaton américaine.
Journalism, cinema, lectures[edit]
From 1985 to the present, O’Shea has published a wide variety of articles for American, British and Canadian publications. His work includes book reviews, film criticism, essays, celebrity profiles, humor articles, and travel stories.[2]
In 1989-1993, he was Senior Editor at Elle[2], in New York City. Returning to Paris, in 1995-1997 O’Shea became the film critic on French movies for Variety[2][3]. In those years, at the Cannes Film Festival, he blogged (before that word was invented) for a press syndicate that included Le Monde and El País.
In cinema, O’Shea created English subtitles for French feature films. The period (1985-89 & 1993-1997) saw him work, along with translating partner Sandy Whitelaw [4][5], for such directors as Bertrand Blier, Jacques Demy, Mathieu Kassovitz, Patrice Leconte, Jean-Pierre Mocky, Marcel Ophüls, Eric Rohmer, and Agnès Varda. He also co-wrote the screenplay for the feature film Vicious Circles[6], an erotic thriller starring Ben Gazzara (1997).
O’Shea has been a guest lecturer at Brown, Yale[7], Harvard, Wheaton College, The New School, Boston College, The Smithsonian, British Museum[8], University of Toronto[9], National Library and Archives of Canada, and the Fulbright Scholarship program in Paris.
Books[edit]
O’Shea’s work has been translated into Brazilian Portuguese,[10] Dutch,[11] French,[12] German,[13] Italian,[14] Polish,[15] Portuguese,[16] Spanish,[17] and Turkish.[18]
- The Alps: A Human History from Hannibal to Heidi and Beyond (2017) ISBN 9780393246858 Search this book on
. - The Friar of Carcassonne: Revolt Against the Inquisition in the Last Days of the Cathars (2011) ISBN 9780802719942 Search this book on .
- Sea of Faith: Islam and Chrisitianity in the Medieval Mediterranean World (2006) ISBN 0802714986 Search this book on .
- The Perfect Heresy: The Revolutionary Life and Death of the Medieval Cathars (2000) ISBN 0802713505 Search this book on .
- Back to the Front: An Accidental Historian Walks the Trenches of World War One (1996, 2015) ISBN 9780802776181 Search this book on .
- The Penguin Guide to Spain [Barcelona chapter] (1990) ISBN 0140199152 Search this book on .
- The Penguin Guide to France [Paris, Provence, and French Riviera chapters] (1989) ISBN 0140199144 Search this book on .
Media[edit]
Radio[edit]
Canada: CBC, Radio Canada, France: Radio Bleu Roussillon, Ireland: RTE, Italy: RAI1 Friuli Venezia Giulia, UK: BBC 1, 3, 4. USA: NPR (Boston, New York City, Philadelphia), WGN Chicago.
Television[edit]
Canada: TVO Big Ideas (2006)[9], Ireland: RTE, France: M5, UK: BBC Richard Hammond and the Holy Grail (2006)[19], USA: Discovery Channel Ancient Aliens (2015)[20], History Channel Secrets of War (1998)[21] & Nostradamus Decoded (2009)[22].
Family[edit]
O'Shea was married to Jill Pearlman from 1993-2010 and their children are Rachel (born 1995) and Eve (born 1999).
His brothers are Donal O'Shea, a mathematician, President of The New College, Sarasota, Florida,[23] and Kevin O'Shea, a veteran diplomat, who served until recently in the Privy Council Office, Ottawa, Ontario.[24]
External links[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards". Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Bloomsbury.com. "Bloomsbury - Stephen O'Shea - Stephen O'Shea". www.bloomsbury.com.
- ↑ O'Shea, Stephen (14 May 1996). "How I Got Into an Argument".
- ↑ https://books.google.com/booksid=3rJwhoBsRJ4C&pg=PA227&lpg=PA227&dq=o%27shea+whitelaw&source=bl&ots=Qo-SlXejmW&sig=eXDkqINXhsbycg0Ids9gmzl4Rxw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjft4PQlOjYAhURvFMKHdOxAcEQ6AEIQTAH#v=onepage&q=o'shea%20whitelaw&f=false
- ↑ "A Raw French Film Survives Translation". The New York Times. 4 February 1996.
- ↑ "Vicious Circles". TVGuide.com.
- ↑ http://artscalendar.yale.edu/week/2012-02-19?event=CAL-2c9cb3cc-351c0a34-0135-67c22b24-000009f6bedework%40yale.edu_&tag_id=5
- ↑ Salway, Sarah. "Sarah's writing journal".
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 "Archive: Stephen O'Shea on his book "Sea of Faith"". TVO.
- ↑ ISBN 8501067725 Search this book on .
- ↑ ISBN 9027479607 Search this book on .
- ↑ ISBN 9782875152305 Search this book on .
- ↑ ISBN 9783442177165 Search this book on .
- ↑ ISBN 9788856662566 Search this book on .
- ↑ ISBN 9788375100877 Search this book on .
- ↑ ISBN 9724133443 Search this book on .
- ↑ ISBN 9501522407 Search this book on .
- ↑ ISBN 9786053992127 Search this book on .
- ↑ "Richard Hammond and the Holy Grail". 29 May 2006 – via www.imdb.com.
- ↑ "Ancient Aliens s10e04 Episode Script - SS". Springfield! Springfield!.
- ↑ "WWI: Germany's Secret Gambles" – via www.imdb.com.
- ↑ "Nostradamus Decoded". 16 September 2009 – via www.imdb.com.
- ↑ "Directory - Donal O'Shea". 31 December 2015.
- ↑ https://www.wilsoncenter.org/person/kevin-oshea
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