Miguel Bonnefoy, born on December 22, 1986, in Paris, France, is a writer of both French and Venezuelan nationality.

Born in France to a Venezuelan diplomat mother, who was stationed at the Venezuelan embassy in Paris, and a Chilean novelist father, Miguel Bonnefoy grew up in Venezuela and Portugal. He attended French lycées.

The author has also taught French at the Alliance Française.

In 2009, he won second prize in the 14th Sorbonne Nouvelle Short Story Competition with "La Casa y el Ladrón" (The House and the Thief). He published "Quando il labirinto fu rinchiuso nel Minotauro" (When the Labyrinth Was Enclosed in the Minotaur) in Italian in 2009, and "Naufragios" (Shipwrecks) in French in 2011, which was shortlisted for the 2012 Prix du Inadvertido (Prix of the Unnoticed). In 2013, he won the Prix du Young Writer (Young Writer Prize) with "Ícaro y otras noticias" (Icarus and Other News). Octavio's Journey, his first novel, published in 2015, was a finalist for the Goncourt Prize for a first novel. In 2017, Black Sugar was a finalist for the Femina Prize. In 2018-2019, he was a resident at the Villa Medici. In 2021, he won the French Booksellers' Prize for his novel Inheritance.