1. Yves Jean Bonnefoy was a French poet and art historian.
12 Facts About Yves Bonnefoy
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Yves Bonnefoy published a number of translations, most notably the plays of William Shakespeare which are considered among the best in French.
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Yves Bonnefoy was a professor at the College de France from 1981 to 1993 and is the author of several works on art, art history, and artists including Miro and Giacometti, and a monograph on Paris-based Iranian artist Farhad Ostovani.
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Yves Bonnefoy was born in Tours, Indre-et-Loire, the son of Marius Elie Yves Bonnefoy, a railroad worker, and Helene Maury, a teacher.
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Yves Bonnefoy studied mathematics and philosophy at the Universities of Poitiers and the Sorbonne in Paris.
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Yves Bonnefoy's style is remarkable for the deceptive simplicity of its vocabulary.
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Yves Bonnefoy's work has been translated into English by, among others, Emily Grosholz, Galway Kinnell, John Naughton, Alan Baker, Hoyt Rogers, Antony Rudolf, Beverley Bie Brahic and Richard Stamelmann.
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Yves Bonnefoy continued to work closely with painters throughout his career and wrote prefaces for artists' books, including those by his friend Miklos Bokor.
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Yves Bonnefoy died on 1 July 2016 at the age of 93 in Paris.
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Yves Bonnefoy was honoured with a number of prizes throughout his creative life.
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Toward the final years of his life, Yves Bonnefoy was recognized with the Franz Kafka Prize in 2007 and, in 2011, he received the Griffin Lifetime Recognition Award, presented by the trustees of the Griffin Poetry Prize.
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Yves Bonnefoy won the 2015 International Nonino Prize in Italy.