Hoyt Rogers is a writer, translator, scholar, and internationalist. Born in North America, he has spent most of his life in Latin America and Western Europe. He was educated at Columbia, Harvard, the Sorbonne, and Oxford, where he received his doctoral degree in 1978. He has published many books; he has contributed poetry, fiction, essays, and translations to a wide variety of periodicals. His edition of Yves Bonnefoy's Rome, 1630 received the 2021 Translation Prize for Nonfiction, awarded by the French-American Foundation.

He carried out the European research for Choreography by George Balanchine, and co-edited Lincoln Kirstein's Rhymes of a PFC. With Roy Rosenstein, he published a critical edition of Étienne Durand's Poésies complètes (preface by Yves Bonnefoy). He is the author of a volume of verse, Witnesses, and a study of Renaissance literature, The Poetics of Inconstancy. His forthcoming works include two new collections of poetry, Thresholds and Heard in Paintings, and — with Artemisia Vento — the novel Sailing to Noon (book one of The Caribbean Trilogy).

He translates from the French, German, Italian, and Spanish. With Alastair Reid, Robert Fitzgerald, and others, he collaborated on the Selected Poems of Borges. With Friedhelm Kemp, he published the first translations of George Oppen into German. He has translated five books by Yves Bonnefoy: The Curved Planks (with a preface by Richard Howard), Second Simplicity, The Digamma, Rome, 1630, and (with Mathilde Bonnefoy) Together Still, the author's final poetry collection. With Paul Auster, he published Openwork, an André du Bouchet reader; and with Eric Fishman, a second du Bouchet anthology, Outside. He amply contributed to the two-volume Carcanet collection of Bonnefoy's poetry and prose. Current projects include Bonnefoy's The Wandering Life, Manuel Rueda's Bienvenida and the Night, and Snow Poems (paired with paintings by Mary Heebner).

Hoyt Rogers has worked with major publishing houses such as Viking-Penguin, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Basic Books-Perseus, Knopf-Random House, Yale University Press, Seagull Books, Carcanet, and MacLehose. His writings have appeared in dozens of periodicals: the New England Review, AGNI, The Antioch Review, The Southern Review, Poetry, Harper's Magazine, Words Without Borders, The Yale Review, The Kenyon Review, Tin House, the Partisan Review, Nimrod, the Harvard Review, Ensemble, and Cahiers Européens — to mention only a few. He has received critical attention in The New Yorker, Books & Culture, PN Review, The Arts Fuse, the Times Literary Supplement, The New York Review of Books, the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Variety, the Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews, the Times Sunday Book Review, The Guardian, the Los Angeles Review, and many other publications. He is a Contributing Editor for The Fortnightly Review, the online cultural journal based in Britain and France.

For several decades he has served as an interpreter for professional exchange programs, and as an organizer of educational travel and cultural encounters throughout the world. In this context, he has collaborated with such figures as Vice-President Al Gore, Justice Ruth Bader-Ginsburg, author and President Juan Bosch, Galápagos Islands Governor Eliezer Cruz, environmentalists Gnohite Gome and Robert Kennedy, Jr., choreographer Bill T. Jones, immunologist Anthony Fauci, artists Carlos Colombino and Enrique Zamudio, economist Paul Samuelson, Shuar-Achuar leader Miguel Puwainchir, chemist Mario Molina, playwright Octavio Solis, trans activist Vera Morales, poets Maya Angelou and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, filmmakers Souleymane Cissé and Godfrey Reggio, as well as many others. On official assignments or on his own, he has traveled to some of the most remote places on the globe.

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