Awards and Recognitions

FIL Literary Award in Romance Languages

2013

Yves Bonnefoy

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Francia, 1923-2016

Born in 1923, Yves Bonnefoy was a poet, narrator, essayist, critic, and translator, and a member of the Collège de France. Yves Bonnefoy bore witness to the human experiences of the twentieth century, which he confronted with all the generosity and acuity of his critical and poetic production, within which he was able to link tradition with the present. Initially connected to Surrealism, he integrated the avant-garde with the great pillars of poetic modernity, such as Baudelaire, Celan, and Rimbaud, on whom his recent essayistic publication Notre besoin de Rimbaud (2009) focuses. A renovator of genres, he is the author of a very extensive creative oeuvre, in which stand out titles such as Anti-Platon (1953), Pierre écrite (1965), Rue Traversière (1977), L’Encore aveugle (1997), La Pluie d’été (1999), Le Ca’ur-espace (2001), Les Planches courbes (2001), among others. He is also the editor of that major work that constitutes the four volumes of his Dictionnaire des mythologies et des religions (1981), a work that innovates the myth-critical approach for the exegesis of Western tradition.