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 Royal National Theatre in London, became a member of Oulipo in 1961, founder of the Outrapo, and was also a member of the Collège de Pataphysique, the [http://www.atlaspress.co.uk/theLIP/ 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'', a magazine edited by the poet Ewart Milne. His English translation of ''A Hundred Thousand Billion Poems'' was received with "admiring stupefaction" by Raymond Queneau. Provided by Wikipedia