Robert Marteau
French poet, novelist, translator, and essayist, Robert Marteau was born in 1925 and died in 2011. While his work celebrates France, the French landscape and French history and culture, he also lived in Canada for more than a decade. His work garnered many awards, including the Charles Vildrac Prize, two prestigious prizes for poetry from the Académie Française, the Poitou-Charentes Book Prize for his novel In The Grass, and the Mallarmé Prize for his book of poetry, Ordinary Time. In 1979, Princeton University Press published, Salamander, a selection of his poetry in English translation.
