Since 1998, he has been a member of the French writing group Oulipo. Among his works in English are the books, Family Archaeology and Other Poems (2004) and Writings for the Oulipo (2005). His translations include several novels by Daniel Pennac, several works by his fellow Oulipian Georges Perec, and a rhymed translation of Raymond Roussel's New Impressions of Africa (Nouvelles Impressions d'Afrique). He now writes mainly in French, but in 2015 published a bilingual, self-translated (in both directions) ebook of poetry, Les feuilles de yucca / Leaves of the Yucca (Contre-mur). He won the Scott Moncrieff Prize in 2004 for his translation of Monsieur Malaussène by Daniel Pennac.
Original works
Vers de l'infini, Cambourakis, 2017
Ça coule et ça crache, poèmes sur les photos de Hervé Van De Meulebroeke, Les Venterniers, 2016
Twin Towers, 3D poem, les mille univers, 2015
Les feuilles de yucca / Leaves of the Yucca, bilingual ebook, Le Contre-mur, 2015
Là, Cambourakis, 2014
14 x 14, L'Âne qui butine, 2013
La Jeunesse de Mek-Ouyes, Cambourakis, 2010
Plouk Town, Cambourakis, 2007
Stoned at Bourges, les mille univers, 2006
Writings for the Oulipo, Make Now, 2005
N/S, Éditions de l'attente, 2004 (with Frédéric Forte)
L'Inconnu du Sambre express, TEC-CRIAC, 2004
Family Archaeology and Other Poems, Make now, 2004
Le Voyage d'Ovide, le Verger éd., 2002
Le Désesperanto, Plurielle, 2001
In collaboration :
Battre les rues, in Les Mystères de la capitale, (with Olivier Salon), Le bec en l'air, 2013
Septines en Septaine et autres poèmes, (with Frédéric Forte et al), Les mille univers, 2013
Anthologie de l’Oulipo, Gallimard, 2009.
À chacun sa place, La Contre Allée, 2008
Potje vleesch, La Nuit Myrtide, 2006
Oulipo Compendium, Atlas Press, 1998
Publications in the Bibliothèque oulipienne :
“Canzone", La Bibliothèque oulipienne, n° 222, 2015
Le Monde des nonines, (with Michèle Audin) La Bibliothèque oulipienne, n° 218, 2015
Comment dire en anglais, La Bibliothèque oulipienne, n° 188, 2010
La Queninisation du yucca, La Bibliothèque oulipienne, n° 181, 2009
Les Feuilles du yucca, La Bibliothèque oulipienne, n° 176, 2008
Élémentaire, mon cher, La Bibliothèque oulipienne, n° 128, 2003
Quenoums, La Bibliothèque oulipienne, n° 127, 2003
Les États du sonnet, La Bibliothèque oulipienne, n° 116, 2001
Le Voyage d'Hoover, La Bibliothèque oulipienne, n° 110, 1999
Monquines, La Bibliothèque oulipienne, n° 109, 1999
Fractales, La Bibliothèque oulipienne, n° 102, 1999
Selected Translations
Frédéric Forte : Minute Operas (Operas Minute), en collaboration, Burning Deck, 2014
Georges Perec / Oulipo: Winter Journeys (Le Voyage d'hiver & ses suites), Atlas Press, 2013
Jacques Roubaud: Mathematics: (Mathématique:) Dalkey Archive, 2012
Hervé Le Tellier: A Thousand Thoughts (Les amnésiques n'ont rien vécu d'inoubliable), Dalkey Archive, 2011
Yannick Haenel: The Messenger (Jan Karski), Text Publishing Company, 2010
Raymond Roussel: New Impressions of Africa (Nouvelles impressions d'Afrique), Atlas Press, 2005
