Michelle Grangaud

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]

• 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)