Philippe Denis | |
Birth Date: | 17 January 1947 |
Birth Place: | Bordeaux, France |
Death Place: | Viana do Castelo, Portugal |
Occupation: | Poet and translator |
Notableworks: | Cahier d'ombres (1974); Nugae (1989). |
Philippe Denis (17 January 1947 in Bordeaux, France – 8 November 2021[1] in Viana do Castelo in Portugal),[2] was a French poet, essayist, and translator.
Philippe Denis authored several books of poetry and essays, as well as translations from both English and Japanese.[3] He had contributed work to numerous French-language journals: L'Éphémère, Argile, Clivages, NRF, Critique, Les Cahiers du Sud, La Revue de Belles-Lettres, Po&sie, Limon, Banana Split, L'Ire des Vents and La Thirteenth. ; as well as internationally: New Direction, Chicago Review, M(odern) P(oetry) in T(ranslation), Origin, Triquarterly Review, Poetry Now, Mundus Artium (United States and Great Britain), Park (Berlin), Nuovi Argomenti (Rome), Edebiyat Çeviri Dergisi (Ankara).
He was a Fulbright Visiting Lecturer (University of Minnesota) a then Member of the Faculty of Bennington College (Vermont); in addition, Denis had been a lecturer in Turkey at the University of Uludağ (Bursa) and Çukurova (Adana), as well as the university from Coimbra (Portugal).
In 1978 he participated in the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa.
He had lived abroad for more than thirty years.