André Blavier (23 October 1922 – 12 June 2001) was a Belgian poet. From 1961 he was a member of the literary group Oulipo and served as their foreign correspondent.Elkin, Lauren, & Esposito, Scott (2012).
The End of Oulipo?: An Attempt to Exhaust a Movement
'. John Hunt Publishing. p. 77. . He was born in Verviers into a working-class family. His wife was the

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artist and translator Odette Blavier. Blavier was greatly influenced by the work of Raymond Queneau, and became a member of Oulipo (the name is a contraction for ''Ouvrage de littérature potentielle'' or "workshop of potential literature"), a group consisting of mostly French-speaking writers and mathematicians who create literary works using constrained writing techniques.

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Pataphysicians 1922 births 2001 deaths Belgian male poets Belgian poets in French People from Verviers Walloon movement activists Walloon people 20th-century Belgian poets 20th-century Belgian male writers Oulipo members {{Belgium-bio-stub