BÉATRICE BONHOMME (FRANCE)

BÉATRICE BONHOMME is a poet, literary critic, journal editor, and professor at Université Côte d’Azur. A specialist in 20th- and 21st-century literature, particularly modern and contemporary poetry, she founded NU(e) in 1994, a journal devoted to contemporary poetry and art, now published online on the POESIBAO platform.

She heads the Société des lecteurs de Pierre Jean Jouve and, from 2003 to 2023, founded and coordinated POIEMA, a research programme dedicated to poetry within CTELA – the Transdisciplinary Centre for Epistemology of Literature and the Performing Arts, which she directed for seven years.

She has published numerous studies, articles, and books on modern and contemporary poetry, including Mémoire et chemins vers le monde and Pierre Jean Jouve, la quête intérieure, as well as volumes resulting from conferences devoted to poets that she organised at Cerisy.

In 2016, she received the Léopold Sédar Senghor Prize from the Cénacle Européen for her contribution to the recognition of contemporary poetry, and in 2019, the Vénus Khoury-Ghata Prize for Dialogue avec l’Anonyme. Her recent poetry collections include Les Boxeurs de l’absurde (2019), Proses écorchées au fil noir (2020), and Monde, genoux couronnés (2022), which received the 2023 Mallarmé Prize. Her poetic work has been the subject of the book Le mot, la mort, l’amour (Peter Lang, 2012), as well as special issues of the journals Poésie-sur-Seine and Coup de soleil. Her latest collection, Murmurations des oiseaux, was published by Éditions de la Rumeur libre.