Alain Jouffroy (11 September 1928 – 20 December 2015) was a French writer, poet and artist. Jouffroy was born near

Parc Montsouris Parc Montsouris (; English: Montsouris Park) is a public park situated in southern Paris, France. Located in the 14th arrondissement, it was officially inaugurated in 1875 after an early opening in 1869. Parc Montsouris is one of the four large ...

, Paris. He was the first advocate of an

Art Strike The first known reference to an Art Strike appears in an Alain Jouffroy essay: "What's To Be Done About Art?" (included in "Art and Confrontation," New York Graphic Society 1968). "It is essential that the minority advocate the necessity of going ...

and formed the L'Union des Ecrivains during the strikes of

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with

Jean-Pierre Faye Jean-Pierre Faye (born 19 July 1925) is a French philosopher and writer of fiction and prose poetry. Life and career Faye was born in Paris. He was member of the editing committee of the avant-garde literary review '' Tel Quel'', and later of ' ...

. He was also a great influence on the Zanzibar Group—part of the

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who took part in the Paris demonstrations at this time.The new, new wave
The Guardian, 9 February 2002 He won the

Prix Goncourt The Prix Goncourt ( , "The Goncourt Prize") is a prize in French literature, given by the académie Goncourt to the author of "the best and most imaginative prose work of the year". The prize carries a symbolic reward of only 10 euros, but resul ...

for poetry in 2007.

Filmography

External links

Portrait of Alain Jouffroy
by Braun-Vega (1978).

References

Writers from Paris 1928 births 2015 deaths 20th-century French poets French art critics French male poets Prix Goncourt de la Poésie winners Prix Guillaume Apollinaire winners Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery 20th-century French male writers French male non-fiction writers {{France-writer-stub