Stéphane Bouquet

Stéphane Bouquet was the author of eight collections of poetry including Common Life (2023) and The Next Loves (2019) both translated by Lindsay Turner and published by Nightboat Books. He published books on filmmakers such as Sergei Eisenstein and Gus Van Sant, as well as screenplays for feature films, nonfiction films, and short films, and translated poets including Paul Blackburn, James Schuyler, and Peter Gizzi into French. He also conducted workshops for choreographers at the Centre National de la danse in Paris and for actors and stage directors at La Manufacture in Lausanne, Switzerland. Bouquet was a recipient of a 2003 Prix de Rome and a 2007 Mission Stendhal Award, and was featured in France and internationally at festivals, residencies, and events, including the 2017 Frankfurt Book Fair and the 2018 Toronto Festival of Authors. He held an MA in economics from Université Panthéon-Sorbonne.

Bouquet died in Paris on August 24, 2025 at the age of 57.