François Le Lionnais

Thinkers1901 to 1984Writer and mathematician

Works

  • Oulipo (Ouvroir de littérature potentielle), co-founded with Raymond Queneau, 1960

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French chemical engineer and writer who co-founded the Oulipo with Raymond Queneau in 1960, a workshop of writers and mathematicians who invent formal constraints, such as lipograms and permutations, as engines for new writing.

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