Michelle Grangaud (11 October 1941 – 15 January 2022) was a French poet.[1]
Biography
During her childhood, Grangaud discovered the works of Marcel Proust.[2] In 1962, she left Algeria and settled in Montpellier. She taught classics until 1977 before becoming an administrative assistant at the rectorate.[3] In 1987, she published Mémento-fragments with Éditions P.O.L .[2] She then published sixteen other works in collaboration with other publishers.[4]
Grangaud was elected a member of Oulipo,[5] one of the few women in the group.[6] A specialist in anagrams, she created the sexagrammatine constraint[7] and the "avion".[8]
She died in Brie-Comte-Robert on 15 January 2022, at the age of 80.[9]
Works
- Mémento fragment (1987)
- Stations (1990)
- Renaîtres (1990)
- Geste (1991)
- Jours le jour (1994)
- On verra bien (1996)
- Poèmes fondus (1997)
- État civil (1998)
- Souvenirs de ma vie collective (2000)
- Calendrier des poètes (2001)
- Calendrier des fêtes nationales (2003)
- Les Temps traversés (2010)
- Le bébégaiement du beau Beaubourg (2011)
References
- ^ "Michelle Grangaud". Babelio (in French).
- ^ a b Forte, Frédéric (19 January 2022). "La mort de la poétesse Michelle Grangaud". Le Monde (in French). Retrieved 23 January 2022.
- ^ Forte, Frédéric (19 January 2022). "The death of the poet Michelle Grangaud". Le Monde.
- ^ "CEP: Lecture de Michelle Grangaud / OULIPO". Fabula (in French). 3 April 2002.
- ^ "Michelle Grangaud". La Poéthèque (in French).
- ^ Manea, Raluca (30 January 2020). "État civil: Michelle Grangaud on Language Unrest". Contemporary French and Francophone Studies (in French). 23 (3): 290–297. doi:10.1080/17409292.2019.1680132. S2CID 213396924.
- ^ "Michelle Grangaud". l'Attente (in French).
- ^ "Michelle Grangaud". Oulipo (in French). 23 July 2013.
- ^ "Biographie". Editions P.O.L. (in French).