Charles Dobzynski

Charles Dobzynski (born 1929 Warsaw - 26 September 2014) was a French poet, journalist and translator.

Life
His family emigrated to France, where he was barely a year old. He narrowly escaped deportation during World War II. he published his first poem in 1944, in a youth newspaper of the Resistance. In 1949, Paul Eluard presented his first poems in Les Lettres françaises. On the proposal of Aragon, he entered the newspaper's editors Ce Soir. He was a journalist and film critic. He was an editor of the magazine Europe, with Pierre Abraham, and Pierre Gamarra.

He is Chevalier of Arts and Letters, a member of the Académie Mallarmé, and president of the jury for the Apollinaire prize.

Awards

 * 2005 Prix Goncourt de la Poésie