"Jacqueline Risset died on 4th September 2014. She was a poet and a poetical person. With her death we lose a voice, the voice of a woman of great culture and intelligence. With her angelic smile she was very attentive to the support of her friends, and to sharing with them small observations and big concerns about what was going on on our planet. I had the privilege of being one of her friends, and I shall try to follow her example of modesty and devotion to literature. I cannot forget the remarkable translation into French that she made of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy. For that alone we should be grateful to Jacqueline's memory."  Alain Elkann

To read Alain's 2012 Interview with JACQUELINE RISSET click the link: http://alainelkanninterviews.com/jacqueline-risset/