Yves Bonnefoy

Yves Bonnefoy (1923–2016) was a renowned French poet, critic and professor emeritus of comparative poetics at Collège de France, Paris. He received several major international awards for his work, including the Prix mondial Cino Del Duca (1995) and the Franz Kakfa Prize (2005). In addition to poetry and literary criticism, he published numerous works on art history and translated into French several of Shakespeare’s plays.