Yves Bonnefoy: Biography, Facts and Career
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Yves Jean Bonnefoy (24 June 1923, Tours – 1 July 2016, Paris) was a French poet and art historian. He also published a number of translations, most notably the plays of William Shakespeare which are considered among the best in French. He was a professor at the Collège de France from 1981 to 1993 and is the author of several works on art, art history, and artists including Miró and Giacometti, and a monograph on Paris-based Iranian artist Farhad Ostovani. The Encyclopædia Britannica states that Bonnefoy was ″perhaps the most important French poet of the latter half of the 20th century.″
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- Full name: Yves Bonnefoy
- Born: 1923-06-24
- Nationality: France
- Known as: Author
- Wikidata ID: Q250136
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Yves Jean Bonnefoy (24 June 1923, Tours – 1 July 2016, Paris) was a French poet and art historian.
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Yves Bonnefoy was born on 1923-06-24.
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