Anne Françoise Garréta is a French novelist and a member of the experimental literary group Oulipo.
[1] awarded each year to an author whose "fame does not yet match their talent" (she is the second Oulipian to win the award—Georges Perec won in 1978).
[1] Garréta has also contributed to La Bibliothèque oulipienne, a collection of short texts written by members of Oulipo.
Published when the author was twenty-three years old, Sphinx is the first novel by a female member of Oulipo to be translated into English.
In La Décomposition (Grasset, 1999), a serial killer methodically murders characters from Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time.