Patrick Quillier is a poet, composer and translator.

For many years, he meandered through Europe, Africa and around the Indian Ocean, notably teaching classical literature in Portugal, Austria and Hungary. Since 1999, he has taught general and comparative literature at the University of Nice. The translator and editor of Fernando Pessoa in the Pléiade collection, he also has translated the works of contemporary Portuguese and Hungarian poets. He is always guided by a concern for fine, generalized listening — to the world, the body, and the inner self ­— as revealed in poetry. He is notably the author of an essay, Le Gardeur de troupeaux et les autres poèmes d’Alberto Caeiro, and of Voix éclatées, a magnificent collection of poems for which he received the Roger Kowalski Award for Poetry from the city of Lyon in 2018.