Anne F. Garréta

Anne Françoise Garréta is a French novelist and a member of the experimental literary group Oulipo. She is the first member of Oulipo to be born after the group's founding. Her awards include the Prix Médicis.

Life and career Early life and academic career Anne Garréta was born in 1962 in Paris. In 1982 she graduated from the École normale supérieure. She was a professor of literature from the 17th and 18th centuries at the University of Princeton before being appointed maître de conférences at the University of Rennes 2 in 1995. She is currently teaching at Duke University as a Research Professor of Literature and Romance Studies.

Awards

Prix Médicis (2002) for the novel Pas un jour

Works

Sphinx (Grasset, 1986); English translation by Emma Ramadan (Deep Vellum, 2015). Spanish translation by Julia Larravide, "Esfinge" (Ethos Traductora, 2020). Pour en finir avec le genre humain (Editions François Bourin, 1987) Ciels liquides (Grasset, 1990) La Décomposition (Grasset, 1999) Pas un jour (Grasset, 2002); English translation by Emma Ramadan, Not One Day (Deep Vellum, 2017). Spanish translation by Sara Martin Menduiña. "Ni un dia" (EDA Libros, 2017) Éros Mélancolique (with Jacques Roubaud) (Grasset, 2009) Dans l'beton (Grasset, 2017); English translation by Emma Ramadan, In Concrete (Deep Vellum 2021)