Michelle Grangaud

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

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] In 1987, she published Mémento-fragments with Éditions P.O.L [fr].[2] She then published sixteen other works in collaboration with other publishers.[4]

Grangaud was elected a member of Oulipo,[5] one of the few women in the group.[6] A specialist in anagrams, she created the sexagrammatine constraint[7] and the "avion".[8]

She died in Brie-Comte-Robert on 15 January 2022, at the age of 80.[9]

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

1. "Michelle Grangaud". Babelio (in French).
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. "CEP: Lecture de Michelle Grangaud / OULIPO". Fabula (in French). 3 April 2002.
5. "Michelle Grangaud". La Poéthèque (in French).
6. 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.
7. "Michelle Grangaud". l'Attente (in French).
8. "Michelle Grangaud". Oulipo (in French). 23 July 2013.
9. "Biographie". Editions P.O.L. (in French).