Claude Roy (poet)

Claude Roy (28 August 1915 – 13 December 1997) was a French poet and essayist. He was born and died in Paris.

Awards

• 1951 Fénéon Prize for Le poète mineur
• 1969 Prix Littéraire Valery Larbaud for his book Le verbe Aimer et autres essais
• 1985 Prix Goncourt de la Poésie

Works

• Le verbe Aimer et autres essais (1969)
• Moi je (1969)
• Nous (1972)
• Enfantasques (1974)
• Somme toute (1976)

References

• France, Peter (Ed.) (1995). The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 0-19-866125-8.