Jacques Roubaud

Jacques Roubaud was born in 1932 in Caluire, Rhône region, France. A poet, novelist, playwright, essayist, and mathematician, he published his first book in 1944 and dozens of others since then. He moved to Paris after the Second World War. In 1966, through Raymond Queneau, he joined the... OuLiPo – Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle, an experimental poetry group that restricted poetic creation with self-imposed constraints, notably mathematical ones. With Paul Braffort, Roubaud founded the ALAMO - Atelier de Littérature Assistée par les Mathématiques et les OrdinateursIn 1989, he published The Great Fire of LondonThis marked the beginning of a prose cycle considered by the author to be his great project. Jacques Roubaud's creative journey was marked by his brother's suicide in 1961 and, later, by the premature death of his wife, just three years after their marriage. Something Black He was awarded the France Culture Prize in 1986. In 1990, Roubaud received the Grand National Poetry Prize and, in 2008, the Grand Prize for Literature from the French Academy.