Stanley Chapman

Stanley Chapman (15 September 1925 – 26 May 2009) was a British architect, designer, translator and writer. His interests included 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. In the early 1950s he contributed poems and designed covers for the literary magazines Listen and Stand and contributed translations to Chanticleer. His English translation of A Hundred Thousand Billion Poems was received with "admiring stupefaction" by Raymond Queneau. An out and proud gay man, Stanley joined the British Association of Homosexuals in 1952.

Some publications

• Onze mille verbes, cent virgules Temps Mêlés n° 98, Verviers, 1969.
• Messaline au Bistrot Dragée Haute n°21. 1996. Publié par Noël Arnaud.
• Epopélerinage Dragée Haute n°35. 1999. Publié par Noël Arnaud.

Some translations

• Everyone Knows by Raymond Queneau
• Darwin certainly saw the importance of the earthworm by Raymond Queneau
• Heartsnatcher by Boris Vian
• Froth on the Daydream by Boris Vian
• Autumn in Pekin by Boris Vian (unpublished)
• The Night-Watch by Arthur Rimbaud [a poem actually by Desnos] in Liberty or Love by Robert Desnos. The novel itself was translated by Terry Hale.
• Camille Renault, 1866-1954, World-Maker. by Jean Hugues Sainmont

External links

• Stanley Chapman
• l'Oulipo site (in French)
• l'Outrapo site (in French)
• L.I.P. website