The poet, essayist and translator French Yves Bonnefoy, one of the great literary voices in contemporary France, died Friday at age 93, reported today the newspaper “Le Monde”.
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The writer sounded repeatedly as a candidate for the Nobel prize for his poetry but also for his work as art critic and translator, which led him to move to French big plays of Shakespeare and giants like Petrarca or Yeats.
wrote over a hundred books, translated into thirty languages, which earned him prestigious awards in France (as the Goncourt prize in 1987 ) or outside their country, as the prize of the Guadalajara International Book Fair (FIL) to the Romance languages in 2013, becoming the first Frenchman to do.
Born in 1923 in Tours in a working family, at twenty he moved to Paris to become a poet after studying mathematics in his hometown.
Bonnefoy was known initially for its proximity to surrealism and own André Breton, although very early, in 1947, he distanced himself from this movement considering that renouncing reality by closed symbols often hermetic world.
his first major collection of poems “Du mouvement et de l appears in 1953 ‘ I Immobilité of Douve “which gave prestige inside and outside their country and opened the doors of countries like the United States or Italy.
his works as an art critic dug into great figures of literature as Rimbaud , whose great admirer declared, but also on the legacy of artists like Goya or Giacometti.
Very active well into years, Bonnefoy was appointed honorary doctor of many universities, such as Oxford, Chicago or Siena and was honorary professor at the prestigious College de France, Paris.
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