Guillaume Métayer

Guillaume Métayer was born in Paris. He works as a poet, translator, and researcher. His poems have been translated into more than ten languages. Following his work Mains positives (Positive Hands, Louis-Guillaume Prize for prose poetry), he recently published a collection entitled Amis devenus (La rumeur libre, 2025). He has translated the works of Hungarian poets (Sándor Petőfi, Attila József, Ágnes Nemes Nagy, István Kemény, Krisztina Tóth) into French, as well as German poets (he is the author of the first complete edition and translation of Nietzsche's poems) and Slovenian poets (especially Aleš Šteger for Gallimard). He contributed to the publication of an anthology of contemporary Slovak poetry, Tendre navette spatiale (Gentle Space Shuttle, 2024), together with Silvia Majerská, in his series of Central European poetry published by Rumeur libre. He wrote the libretto for the opera Mélancolie de la résistance (based on László Krasznahorkai), which premiered at the Staatsoper Berlin in July 2024. His poems, translations, and essays have won many literary awards, but he remains a very likeable young man.