Ian Monk

Ian Monk (born 1960) is a British writer and translator, based in Paris, France.
Biography
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
Interludes (translated by Philip Terry), Ma Bibliothèque, 2020
PQR, éditions isabelle sauvage, 2021
Aujourd'hui le soleil, Les Venterniers, 2019
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, 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
Editor / translator (with Daniel Levin Becker)
All That is Evident is Suspect : Readings from the Oulipo 1963-2018, McSweeney's, 2018
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
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...
French–English translators
British writers
Oulipo members
Writers from London
1960 births
Living people
French male writers