Anne Bignan
French poet and translator
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Anne Bignan (1795–1861)[1] was a French poet and translator, known for his translations of Homer. His father, Jean-Louis-Dominique Bigna de Coyrol, raised Bignan in Paris. Bigna published his first translations of Homer in 1819[citation needed] and won numerous prizes in France in the following years.[1] He is buried in the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.[2]
Selected works
- L'Épître à un jeune romantique sur la gloire littéraire de la France [Epistle to a young romantic on the literary glory of France] - recipient of the Académie française poetry prize in 1831.[1]
