Patrick Faransanci

**Patrick Rollo Basil French** (28 ga Mayu 1966 - 16 Maris 2023) marubuci ne ɗan ƙasar Birtaniya, masanin tarihi kuma masanin ilimi. Shi ne marubucin littattafai da dama waɗanda suka haɗa da: *Younghusband: The Last Great Imperial Adventurer* (1994), tarihin rayuwar Francis Younghusband ; *The World Is What It Is* (2008), tarihin rayuwar Nobel Laureate VS Naipaul wanda ya lashe kyautar National Book Critics Circle Award a Amurka;  da *Indiya: A Portrait* (2011). 

A lokacin babban zaɓen 1992, ɗan ƙasar Faransa ya kasance ɗan takarar Jam'iyyar Green Party a Majalisar Dokoki . Ya kasance a kwamitin zartarwa na Free Tibet, ƙungiyar tallafawa Tibet ta Burtaniya, kuma memba ne na waɗanda suka kafa ƙungiyar tattaunawa tsakanin germination Indiya da Birtaniya. 

## Rayuwa da aiki
An haifi Patrick Rollo Basil French a Aldershot, Hampshire, a ranar 28 ga Mayu 1966.  Ya girma a Warminster kuma ya halarci Kwalejin Ampleforth, kafin ya yi rajista a Jami'ar Edinburgh, inda ya yi karatun adabin Ingilishi da na Amurka, ya sami digiri na MA a adabin Ingilishi, sannan ya sami digiri na uku a karatun Kudancin Asiya.   Yana da shekaru 25, Bafaranshe ya fara tafiya a kan hanyarsa ta zuwa Asiya ta Tsakiya don komawa ga sawun mai binciken Burtaniya Francis Younghusband . Wannan ya haifar da buga littafinsa na farko, *Younghusband: The Last Great Imperial Adventurer* a 1994.  Littafin ya ci gaba da lashe kyautar Somerset Maugham Award  da kuma kyautar WH Heinemann ta Royal Society of Literature .

An buga littafin Faransa na gaba, *Liberty or Death: India's Journey to Independence and Division*, a shekarar 1997 kuma ya sami yabo da kuma yabo iri ɗaya ga marubucin. Wasu daga cikin kafofin watsa labaran Indiya sun bayyana shi a matsayin wanda ke gabatar da "ra'ayin sake dubawa" game da rawar da Mahatma Gandhi da Mohammad Ali Jinnah suka taka a cikin ƙungiyar 'yancin kai ta Indiya,  kuma an yi kira da a dakatar da littafin a Indiya. A gefe guda kuma, Philip Ziegler ya yaba da shi a matsayin "abin mamaki",  kuma Khushwant Singh ya bayyana marubucin a matsayin "mai tarihi kuma mai ba da labari na farko". Littafin ya yi tsada sosai saboda cece-kucen kuma an ba wa Faransa kyautar Jaridar *Sunday Times* Young Author of the Year saboda littafin. 

An buga a shekarar 2003, *Tibet, Tibet: Tarihin Mutum na Ƙasa da Aka Rasa* shi ne littafi na uku na Faransa. A cewar labarin marubucin, sha'awarsa ga Tibet ta samo asali ne daga ganawa da ya yi da Dalai Lama lokacin yana ɗan shekara 16, amma littafin ya fito ne daga "rashin jin tsoro a hankali cewa ra'ayin yamma game da Tibet, musamman ra'ayoyin masu fafutukar Tibet, yana raguwa daga gaskiyar yadda Tibet take. Don haka na yi tafiya mai nisa a Tibet a shekarar 1999."  *Jaridar Independent* ta bayyana littafin a matsayin "mai hankali da kuma sha'awar yadda yake tafiya".  Pico Iyer a cikin sharhin littafin *[[Los Angeles Times]]* ya bayyana Faransanci a matsayin "marubuci mai hankali da ladabi" wanda "yana da baiwar bincike mai zurfi da kuma baiwar zuwa ga cikakkun bayanai da aka yi watsi da su waɗanda suka cancanci bincike da yawa". 

## Rayuwa ta sirri
Faransa da matarsa ta farko, Abigail Ashton-Johnson, suna da 'ya'ya uku. Aurensu ya ƙare da saki. [1] Daga nan ya auri Meru Gokhale, kuma suka haifi ɗa. Gokhale tsohuwar edita ce ta Penguin Random House India kuma 'yar marubuciya kuma mawallafi Namita Gokhale .

A shekara ta 2003, an bai wa ɗan Faransa kuma an ƙi naɗinsa a matsayin Jami'in Umarnin Daular Burtaniya (OBE).  Ya ji taken umarnin, "Don Allah da Daular", zai shafi fahimtar rubuce-rubucensa game da tarihin Kudancin Asiya. 

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