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Georges Perec (1936-1982) was a French novelist and member of the experimental Oulipo group, orphaned during World War II with his father killed in action and mother murdered in the Holocaust. Encyclopaedia Britannica His most notable works include Life: A User's Manual (1978, Prix Médicis), Things: A Story of the Sixties (1965, Prix Renaudot), and the lipogrammatic A Void (1969), renowned for innovative constrained writing techniques.Georges Perec