Born in 1925, Stanley Chapman is a British architect, designer, translator and writer. His interests include theatre and pataphysics. He was involved with founding the National Theatre of London, was a member of Oulipo of the year 1960, founder of the Outrapo and a member also of the French Collège de 'Pataphysique, the London Institute of 'Pataphysics and the Lewis Carroll Society. His English translation of One Hundred Billion Poems was received with "admiring stupefaction" by Raymond Queneau.

Some translations

• Everyone Knows
• Darwin certainly saw the importance of the earthworm
• Heartsnatcher by Boris Vian
• Froth on the Daydream by Boris Vian
• Liberty or Love

External links

• One (random) poem from the "One Hundred Billion Poems"
• http://www.fatrazie.com/stanley_chapman.htm
• l'Oulipo site (in French)
• l'Outrapo site (in French)
• L.I.P. website

1925 births | Living people | British writers | Pataphysicians

Stanley Chapman