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Michelle Grangaud

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Michelle Grangaud
Born(1941-10-11)11 October 1941
Died15 January 2022(2022-01-15) (aged 80)
OccupationPoet

Michelle Grangaud (11 October 1941 – 15 January 2022) was a French poet.[1]

Biography

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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 [fr].[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

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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

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  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.