{{Short description|British architect (1925–2009)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2020}} {{Use British English|date=June 2012}} {{more citations needed|date=February 2017}} '''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,<ref>Precisely February, the 13th. See the official website of the Oulipo: https://oulipo.net/fr/historique-de-loulipo</ref> 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.<ref>See the ''Correspondancier du Collège de 'Pataphysique'' n°23. Paris, 2013.</ref> His English translation of ''A Hundred Thousand Billion Poems'' was received with "admiring stupefaction"<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://oulipo.net/fr/oulipiens/sc|title=Stanley Chapman|date=21 August 2013}}</ref> by Raymond Queneau.
==Some publications== * ''Onze mille verbes, cent virgules'' Temps Mêlés n° 98, Verviers, 1969. * ''Messaline au Bistrot'' Dragée Haute n°21. 1996. Publié par Noël Arnaud. * ''Epopélerinage'' Dragée Haute n°35. 1999. Publié par Noël Arnaud.
==Some translations== * ''Everyone Knows'' by Raymond Queneau * ''Darwin certainly saw the importance of the earthworm'' by Raymond Queneau * ''Heartsnatcher'' by Boris Vian<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://mostlyfiction.com/world/vian.htm|title=Boris Vian : Heartsnatcher : Book Review}}</ref> * ''Froth on the Daydream'' by Boris Vian<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://rob.toadshow.com.au/01_cms/details.asp?ID=344|title = Froth on the Daydream - review by Robert Whyte}}</ref> * ''Autumn in Pekin'' by Boris Vian (unpublished) * ''The Night-Watch by Arthur Rimbaud'' [a poem actually by Desnos] in ''Liberty or Love'' by Robert Desnos. The novel itself was translated by Terry Hale. * '' Camille Renault, 1866–1954, World-Maker.'' by Jean Hugues Sainmont [pseudonym of Emmanuel Peillet]<ref>:fr:Emmanuel Peillet</ref>{{Circular reference|date=July 2019}} * ''Deliquescences'' by Adoré Floupette<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.atlaspress.co.uk/index.cgi?action=view_eclectic&number=4 |title=Eclectics & Heteroclites 4 - The Deliquescences of Ador Floupette - (''Ador Floupette'') |website=www.atlaspress.co.uk |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120111042936/http://www.atlaspress.co.uk/index.cgi?action=view_eclectic&number=4 |archive-date=2012-01-11}}</ref> * ''Bibi-La-Bibiste'' by Raymonde Linossier
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==External links== * [http://www.fatrazie.com/component/search/?searchword=chapman&searchphrase=all&Itemid=101 Stanley Chapman] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20031008054112/http://www2.ec-lille.fr/~book/oulipo/ l'Oulipo site (in French)] * [http://site.voila.fr/outrapo/index.jhtml l'Outrapo site (in French)] * [http://www.atlaspress.co.uk/theLIP/index.cgi?action=chap L.I.P. website]
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