The French writer Yves Bonnefoy, winner of the prestigious award three years of literature Guadalajara International Book Fair (FIL), Mexico ago, died yesterday in Beijing at the age of 93, local media reported.
Bonnefoy, who was a friend of Octavio Paz Mexican Nobel prize, was the first French writer to win the FIL Literary Award in Romance Languages, which received in Guadalajara, and is considered in France as the most contemporary French poet.
In addition to writing poetry, he translated Shakespeare into French, among other great authors, and also lavished on art criticism and the essay and was professor at the College de France.
The French poet wrote over a hundred books during his lifetime, was translated into thirty languages and appeared several times as a candidate for the Nobel prize.
Among his most notable works include collections of poetry and short stories, as well as the Dictionary of mythologies and religions and the essay “L’improbable” (The improbable).
In granting the FIL Prize, unanimously, the jury defined Bonnefoy as a “witness of human experiences of the twentieth century, which is faced with all the generosity and sharpness his critical and poetic, within which is capable of uniting tradition with this “production.
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