friend Miklos Bokor. Bonnefoy died on 1 July 2016 at the age of 93 in Paris. President François Hollande stated of Bonnefoy on his death that he would be remembered for "elevating our language to its supreme degree of precision and beauty". Awards and honours Bonnefoy was honoured with a number of prizes throughout his creative life. Early on he was awarded the Prix des Critiques in 1971. Ten years later, in 1981, The French Academy gave him its grand prize, which was soon followed by the Goncourt Prize for Poetry in 1987. Over the next 15 years, Bonnefoy was awarded both the Prix mondial Cino Del Duca and the Balzan Prize (for Art History and Art Criticism in Europe) in 1995, the Golden Wreath of Struga Poetry Evenings in 1999, and the Grand Prize of the First Masaoka Shiki International Haiku Awards in 2000. Toward the final years of his life, 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. In 2014, he was co-winner of the Janus Pannonius International Poetry Prize. He won the 2015 International Nonino Prize in Italy. Selected works in English translation 1968: On the Motion and Immobility of Douve. Translated by Galway Kinnell. (Ohio University Press: ASIN: B000ILHLXA) – poetry 1985: Poems: 1959-1975. Translated by Richard Pevear. (Random House: ) – poetry 1991: In the Shadow's Light. Translated by John Naughton. (University of Chicago Press: 9780226064482) – poetry 1991: Mythologies [2 Volumes]. Compiled by Yves Bonnefoy. Edited by Wendy Doniger. (University of Chicago Press, ) 1993: Alberto Giacometti: A Biography of His Work. (Flammarion: ) – art criticism 1995: The Lure and the Truth of Painting: Selected Essays on Art. (University of Chicago Press, ) – art criticism 2004: Shakespeare and the French Poet. – essays on the role of the translator. (University of Chicago Press: ) 2007: The Curved Planks. Translated by Hoyt Rogers. (Farrar, Straus and Giroux: ). – poetry 2011: Second Simplicity: New Poetry and Prose, 1991-2011. Selected, translated, and with an introduction by Hoyt Rogers. (Yale University Press: ). – poetry 2012: Beginning and End of the Snow [followed by Where the Arrow Falls]. Translated by Emily Grosholz. (Bucknell University Press: ) – poetry 2013: The Present Hour; with an Introduction by Beverley Bie Brahic. (Seagull Books: ) – poetry