Biography
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 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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GenderMale
Birthday1923-06-24 (100 years old)
Birth NameYves Jean Bonnefoy
Birth PlaceTours, France
Religionatheism
ChildrenMathilde Bonnefoy
CitizenshipsFrance
ResidencesTours, France
AwardsViareggio-Versilia International Prize, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Honorary doctor of the University of Oxford, honorary doctor of the University of Edinburgh, Golden Wreath, Janus Pannonius International Poetry Prize, International Nonino Prize, The prize of the BNF, Prix Goncourt de la Poésie, Grand prix de littérature de la SGDL, Grand prix national de la poésie, Prix mondial Cino Del Duca, FIL Award, Balzan Prize, Franz Kafka Prize
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