Frédéric Boyer (born 2 March 1961, Cannes) is a French author of novels, poems, essays, and translations.
[1] A former student of the École normale supérieure de Fontenay Saint-Cloud, he coordinated the Bible Nouvelle Traduction (Bayard, 2001), with Olivier Cadiot, Jean Echenoz, Florence Delay, Jacques Roubaud, and others.
He proposed new translations of the Confessions by Augustine of Hippo for which he was awarded the Prix Jules Janin of the Académie française (Les aveux, P.O.L., 2008) as well as Richard II, P.O.L 2010 and Shakespeare's sonnets, P.O.L., 2010).
He is also the president of Tetra Media Studios, best known in the Anglophone world for the television drama series A French Village.
[2] He assumed this position in 2018 after the death of the publishing house's founding editor, Paul Otchakovsky-Laurens.