Hervé Le Tellier

Hervé Le Tellier
Hervé Le Tellier in 2021
Born (1957-04-21) April 21, 1957
Paris, France
Occupation
  • Novelist
  • poet
  • journalist
LanguageFrench
Alma materCentre de formation des journalistes de Paris
Literary movementOulipo
Notable awardsPrix Goncourt (2020)

Hervé Le Tellier (French pronunciation: [ɛʁve tɛlje]; born 21 April 1957) is a French writer and linguist, and a member of the international literary group Oulipo (Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle, which translates roughly as "workshop of potential literature"). He is its fourth president. Other notable members have included Raymond Queneau, Georges Perec, Italo Calvino, Jacques Roubaud, Jean Lescure and Harry Mathews. He won the 2020 Prix Goncourt for The Anomaly.