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, literary critic, and essayist who wrote the novel (in French – translated in English as ''Remembrance of Things Past'' and more r ...

. In 1962, she left Algeria and settled in

Montpellier Montpellier (; ) 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 France, department of ...

. She taught classics until 1977 before becoming an administrative assistant at the rectorate. 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 ; roughly translated as "workshop of potential literature", stylized ''OuLiPo'') is a loose gathering of (mainly) French-speaking writers and mathematicians who seek to create works using constrained writing techniques. It wa ...

, 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" come ...

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 Writers from Algiers {{France-poet-stub