They've announced that Yves Bonnefoy will get this year's Premio FIL de Literatura en Lenguas Romances (FIL Literary Award in Romance Languages) -- and the $150,000 in prize money that comes with it.
It is awarded: "in recognition for lifetime achievement in any literary genre", and with local favorites Complete Works and Other Stories-author Augusto Monterroso (1996) and Juan Goytisolo (2004) among the impressive list of winners it's a pretty solid-looking prize.
Bonnefoy will be honored 30 November, at the Guadalajara International Book Fair.
Good Bonnefoy starter-volumes (which I should also be getting to, one of these days) are Second Simplicity: New Poetry and Prose, 1991-2011 (see the Yale University Press publicity page (it's part of their great Margellos World Republic of Letters-series), or get your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk) and The Arrière-pays (see the Seagull publicity page, or get your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk).
Bonnefoy will be honored 30 November, at the Guadalajara International Book Fair.
Good Bonnefoy starter-volumes (which I should also be getting to, one of these days) are Second Simplicity: New Poetry and Prose, 1991-2011 (see the Yale University Press publicity page (it's part of their great Margellos World Republic of Letters-series), or get your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk) and The Arrière-pays (see the Seagull publicity page, or get your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk).