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Yves Bonnefoy

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French poet, essayist, translator (1923-2016)

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Yves Jean Bonnefoy 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.

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2015International Nonino Prize
2014Janus Pannonius International Poetry Prize
2013The prize of the BNF
2013FIL Award
2011Pierrette Micheloud Poetry Prize
2011Viareggio-Versilia International Prize
2011Roger-Kowalski award
2007Franz Kafka Prize
2007Horst Bienek Award for Poetry
1999Golden Wreath
1995Prix mondial Cino Del Duca
1995Balzan Prize
1987Prix Goncourt de la Poésie
1987Grand prix de littérature de la SGDL
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 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.″

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Lived 1923 to 2016 · aged 93
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