Featuring Yves Bonnefoy
French poet, essayist, translator, and art historian Yves Bonnefoy was born in 1923 in Tours.
After some early work that appeared in surrealist reviews, Yves Bonnefoy published his first major book of poetry Du Mouvement et de l'immobilité de Douve (On the Motion and Immobility of Douve) in 1953. A dozen works have appeared, most recently Les Planches courbes (The Curved Planks) in 2001.
Bonnefoy´s inquiries into the nature of poetry led to his election to the Collège de France in 1981. He has translated a number of poets, including Donne, Keats, Leopardi, Yeats, and above all Shakespeare. Bonnefoy has also written a number of prose-poems, or dream-narratives, that seek the origin of poetry in the unconscious and imagine existence from a non-conceptual perspective.
Yves Bonnefoy lives in Paris.
Poetry is a never-ending task
In the first of two interviews introducing this year's Prague Writers' Festival, organiser Michael March talks to Yves Bonnefoy, who will be appearing at the festival, about ...
