Ian Monk

Ian Monk (born 1960) is a British writer and translator, based in Paris, France.^[1]

Biography

Since 1998, he has been a member of the French writing group Oulipo.^[1] 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,^[2] several works by his fellow Oulipian Georges Perec, and a rhymed translation of Raymond Roussel's New Impressions of Africa (Nouvelles Impressions d'Afrique).^[3] 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).^[4] He won the Scott Moncrieff Prize in 2004 for his translation of Monsieur Malaussène by Daniel Pennac.

Original works

• 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
• Les États du sonnet, La Bibliothèque oulipienne, n° 116, 2001
• 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
• Marie Darrieussecq: White (White), Faber, 2005
• Marie Darrieussecq: A Brief Stay with the Living (Bref séjour chez les vivants), Faber, 2005
• Camille Laurens: In Those Arms (Dans ces bras-là), Bloomsbury, 2005
• Daniel Pennac: Monsieur Malaussène (Monsieur Malaussène), Harvill, 2003
• Mathieu Ricard / Trinh X. Thuan: The Quantum and the Lotus (L'Univers dans la paume de la main), Random House, 2001
• François Caradec: Raymond Roussel: A Life (Raymond Roussel), Atlas, 2001
• Daniel Pennac: Passion Fruit (Aux fruits de la passion), Harvill, 2000
• Daniel Pennac; Write to Kill (La Petite Marchande de prose), Harvill, 1999
• Daniel Pennac: The Scapegoat (Au bonheur des ogres), Harvill, 1998
• Daniel Pennac: The Fairy Gunmother (La Fée carabine), Harvill, 1997
• Georges Perec: Three (Quel petit vélo...?, Les Revenentes & Un cabinet d'amateur), Harvill, 1998

References

1. (French) Ian Monk, Oulipo website (retrieved 29 december 2013).
2. Write to Kill by Daniel Pennac, on Publishers Weekly (retrieved 29 december 2013).
3. New Impressions of Africa, on Atlas press website (retrieved 29 december 2013).
4. For some examples of his purely French writings, see the Oulipo link below.

External links

• Some of Ian Monk's works online
• Ian Monk's page on the official Oulipo site (in French)
• Ian Monk reads Twin Towers in New York
• Ian Monk & The Outsiders Based on Ian Monk's texts, a rock adaptation and more...