Georges Perec

Georges Perec was born in Paris on 7 March 1936 to Jewish parents who had come from Poland. Taken in during the war by his paternal aunt and uncle, he was adopted by them afterwards. He did his military service with the paratroopers, then married Paulette Petras. From the early sixties he worked as a documentalist in a neurophysiology laboratory. He received the Prix Renaudot in 1965 and joined the Oulipo, the group of constrained writing. The Prix Médicis was awarded to him in 1978. He died in Ivry-sur-Seine on 3 March 1982, aged forty-five.

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• NovelW, or the Memory of ChildhoodW ou le souvenir d'enfanceGeorges Perec · 1975Literature