Michelle Grangaud (11 October 1941 – 15 January 2022) was a French poet.

Biography

During her childhood, Grangaud discovered the works of

Marcel Proust Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust (; ; 10 July 1871 – 18 November 1922) was a French novelist, critic, and essayist who wrote the monumental novel ''In Search of Lost Time'' (''À la recherche du temps perdu''; with the previous Eng ...

. In 1962, she left Algeria and settled in

Montpellier Montpellier (, , ; oc, Montpelhièr ) is a city in southern France near the Mediterranean Sea. One of the largest urban centres in the region of Occitania (administrative region), Occitania, Montpellier is the prefecture of the Departments of ...

. In 1987, she published ''Mémento-fragments'' with . She then published sixteen other works in collaboration with other publishers. Grangaud was elected a member of

Oulipo Oulipo (, short for french: Ouvroir de littérature potentielle; roughly translated: ''"workshop of potential literature"'', stylized ''OuLiPo'') is a loose gathering of (mainly) French-speaking writers and mathematicians who seek to create works ...

, one of the few women in the group. A specialist in

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, she created the sexagrammatine constraint and the "avion". She died in

Brie-Comte-Robert Brie-Comte-Robert () is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. Brie-Comte-Robert is on the edge of the plain of Brie and was formerly the capital of the ''Brie française''. "Brie" comes ...

on 15 January 2022, at the age of 80.

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

1941 births 2022 deaths 20th-century French women 21st-century French women 20th-century French poets 21st-century French poets Oulipo members Pieds-Noirs People from Algiers {{France-poet-stub