Yves Bonnefoy

1923 - 2016

Country of citizenship: France

Native language: French

Languages spoken, written or signed: French

Educated at: Faculty of Arts of Paris, Lycée Descartes, University of Poitiers

Occupation: translator, writer, art critic, poet, university teacher, philosopher, essayist, art historian

Award received: Prix Goncourt de la Poésie, Grand prix de littérature de la SGDL, Prix mondial Cino Del Duca, Balzan Prize, Golden Wreath, Franz Kafka Prize, Horst Bienek Award for Poetry, Pierrette Micheloud Poetry Prize, Viareggio-Versilia International Prize, Roger-Kowalski award, The prize of the BNF, FIL Award, Janus Pannonius International Poetry Prize, International Nonino Prize, Grand prix national de la poésie, honorary doctor of the University of Edinburgh, Honorary doctor of the University of Oxford

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Yves Jean Bonnefoy (24 June 1923, Tours – 1 July 2016, Paris) was a French poet and art historian. He also published a number of translations, most notably the plays of William Shakespeare which are considered among the best in French. He was a professor at the Collège de France from 1981 to 1993 and is the author of several works on art, art history, and artists including Miró and Giacometti, and a monograph on Paris-based Iranian artist Farhad Ostovani. The Encyclopædia Britannica states that Bonnefoy was ″perhaps the most important French poet of the latter half of the 20th century.″ Source: Wikipedia (en)