Are both Yves Bonnefoy and Henry Roth American novelists?
Yves Bonnefoy Yves Jean Bonnefoy (24 June 1923 – 1 July 2016) was a French poet and art historian. He also published a number of translations, most notably the plays of William Shakespeare which are considered among the best in French. He was professor at the Collège de France from 1981 to 1993 and is the author of several works on art, art history, and artists including Miró and Giacometti. "The Encyclopædia Britannica" states that Bonnefoy was ″perhaps the most important French poet of the latter half of the 20th century.″
Beatrice and Virgil Beatrice and Virgil is Canadian writer Yann Martel's third novel. First published in April 2010, it contains an allegorical tale about representations of the Holocaust. It tells the story of Henry, a novelist, who receives the manuscript of a play in a letter from a reader. Intrigued, Henry traces the letter to a taxidermist, who introduces him to the play's protagonists, two taxidermy animals—Beatrice, a donkey, and Virgil, a monkey.