Göran Sonnevi (born 3 October 1939 in Lund, Skåne County) is a Swedish poet and translator.

Sonnevi grew up in Halmstad; he studied literature and linguistics at the University of Lund, also getting librarian training.

Sonnevi is one of the most esteemed poets of modern Sweden and is known as well as a successful and conscientious translator (e.g. of Osip Mandelstam, Ezra Pound and Friedrich Hölderlin).

The rhythmic and musical qualities of his free verse, with sharp line breaks in the middle of phrases or long, flowing and building lines, are present even when he brings in formal or highly specialized scientific expressions.

In 2006, he won The Nordic Council's Literature Prize for his collection Oceanen (the Ocean).