Michelle Grangaud

Michelle Grangaud
Born(1941-10-11)11 October 1941
Algiers, French Algeria, France
Died15 January 2022(2022-01-15) (aged 80)
Brie-Comte-Robert, France
OccupationPoet

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] From 1980 onward, she lived in Paris, France.[4] In 1987, she published Mémento-fragments with Éditions P.O.L.[2] She then published sixteen other works in collaboration with other publishers.[5]

In 1995, Grangaud was elected a member of Oulipo,[6] one of the few women in the group.[7] A specialist in anagrams, she created the sestanagrammatina constraint[8] and the "avion".[9]

She died in Brie-Comte-Robert on 15 January 2022, at the age of 80.[10]

Works

Source:[11][12]

  • 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

  1. ↑ "Michelle Grangaud". Babelio (in French).
  2. 1 2 Forte, Frédéric (19 January 2022). "La mort de la poétesse Michelle Grangaud". Le Monde (in French). Retrieved 23 January 2022.
  3. ↑ Forte, Frédéric (19 January 2022). "The death of the poet Michelle Grangaud". Le Monde.
  4. ↑ "Michelle Grangaud". www.poetryinternational.com (in Dutch). Retrieved 22 April 2026.
  5. ↑ "CEP: Lecture de Michelle Grangaud / OULIPO". Fabula (in French). 3 April 2002.
  6. ↑ "Michelle Grangaud". La Poéthèque (in French).
  7. ↑ 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.
  8. ↑ "Michelle Grangaud". l'Attente (in French).
  9. ↑ "Michelle Grangaud". Oulipo (in French). 23 July 2013.
  10. ↑ "Biographie". Editions P.O.L. (in French).
  11. ↑ Oulipo (13 July 2006). "MG : Bibliographie 1987-2002". oulipo.net (in French). Retrieved 22 April 2026.
  12. ↑ "Michelle Grangaud". www.poetryinternational.com (in Dutch). Retrieved 22 April 2026.
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