Oulipo is a loose gathering of (mainly) French-speaking writers and mathematicians who seek to create works using constrained writing techniques. It was founded in 1960 by Raymond Queneau and François Le Lionnais. Other notable members have included novelists Georges Perec and Italo Calvino, poets Oskar Pastior and Jean Lescure, and poet/mathematician Jacques Roubaud.
Jacques Roubaud is a French poet, writer and mathematician.
François Le Lionnais was a French chemical engineer and writer. He was a co-founder of the literary movement Oulipo.
The Prix Théophraste-Renaudot or Prix Renaudot is a French literary award.
Hervé Le Tellier is a French writer and linguist, and a member of the international literary group Oulipo. He is its fourth president. Other notable members have included Raymond Queneau, Georges Perec, Italo Calvino, Jacques Roubaud, Jean Lescure and Harry Mathews. He won the 2020 Prix Goncourt for The Anomaly.
Florence Delay is a French academician and actress. She is best known for portraying Joan of Arc in the 1962 Robert Bresson film The Trial of Joan of Arc.
Ian Monk is a British writer and translator, based somewhere in France.
Luc Bondy was a Swiss theatre and film director.
France Culture is a French public radio channel and part of Radio France. Its programming encompasses a wide variety of features on historical, philosophical, sociopolitical, and scientific themes, as well as literary readings, radio plays, and experimental productions. The channel is broadcast nationwide on FM and is also available online.
Baroness Suzanne Lilar was a Flemish Belgian essayist, novelist, and playwright writing in French. She was the wife of the Belgian Minister of Justice Albert Lilar and mother of the writer Françoise Mallet-Joris and the art historian Marie Fredericq-Lilar.
Jean Cau was a French writer and journalist.
Richard Conte is a contemporary artist and art professor.
The Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers, also Théâtre des Amandiers, is a theatre in Nanterre and a known theatre outside of Paris. The present building opened in 1976. The company is a Centre dramatique national, a national public theatre. Artistic directors included Patrice Chéreau and Catherine Tasca (1982), Jean-Pierre Vincent (1990) and Jean-Louis Martinelli (2002). The theatre runs a film studio and an acting school which is connected to theatre studies at the Paris West University Nanterre La Défense.
Laure Adler is a French journalist, writer, publisher and radio/TV producer.
Marcel Bénabou is a French writer and historian.
Gilbert Lascault was a French novelist, essayist, and art critic.
Jacques Bens was a French writer and poet.
La Bibliothèque oulipienne is a collection that hosts the works of the individual and collective members of the Oulipo. The short texts that compose them form a fabric of playful literary creations.
Gabriel Michel Hippolyte Matzneff is a French writer. He was the winner of the Mottard and Amic awards from the Académie française in 1987 and 2009 respectively, the Prix Renaudot essay in 2013 and the Prix Cazes in 2015.
Christian Zeimert was a French painter.
