Stanley Chapman

Stanley Chapman (15 September 1925 – 26 May 2009) was a British architect, designer, translator and writer. His interests included theatre and 'pataphysics. He was involved with founding the Royal National Theatre in London, became a member of Oulipo in 1961,^[1] founder of the Outrapo, and was also a member of the Collège de Pataphysique, the London Institute of Pataphysics and the Lewis Carroll Society. In the early 1950s he contributed poems and designed covers for the literary magazines Listen and Stand, and contributed translations to Chanticleer, a magazine edited by the poet Ewart Milne.^[2] His English translation of A Hundred Thousand Billion Poems was received with "admiring stupefaction"^[3] by Raymond Queneau.