{{Short description|French poet}} {{More citations needed|date=September 2021}} thumb|Roger Giroux '''Roger Giroux''' (1925–1974) was a French poet and translator.
Giroux's only book published when he was alive was ''L’arbre le temps'', Mercure de France, 1964; it won the Max-Jacob' Prize that same year.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Prix Max Jacob|url=http://www.max-jacob.com/prix-max-jacob.html#1960|access-date=2021-11-29|website=www.max-jacob.com|language=fr}}</ref>
Giroux translated texts of W. B. Yeats, Lawrence Durrell, Rosmarie Waldrop, Edna O'Brien, Henry Miller and others authors in French.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Eric PESTY Editeur|url=http://www.ericpestyediteur.com/rogergiroux.htm|access-date=2021-11-29|website=www.ericpestyediteur.com|language=fr}}</ref>
A sample of his poems is included in [http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/5697 The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry], edited by Paul Auster, and generally recognized as the best anthology of Modern French poetry in English translation. Collection of poetry: ''L'autre temps'' (1964). Posthumous works: ''Voici'' (1974), ''Théâtre'' (1976), ''S'' (1977), ''L'arbre le Temps suivi de Lieu-Je et de Lettre'' (1977). More recently: ''Poème'' (éd. Théâtre typographique, 2007) and ''Journal d'un poème'' (éd. Eric Pesty, 2011).
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