W, or The Memory of Childhood

Georges Perec was a French novelist, poet, dramatist, and essayist who pioneered the “new novel” movement in French literature and was a member of Oulipo, the Workshop of Potential Literature. A master of wordplay, Perec created experimental lipograms, including his novel La Disparition (1969), written without using the letter e. With filmmaker and novelist Robert Bober, Perec filmed Ellis Island Tales, about immigration to America. He received the Prix Theophraste Renaudot in 1965 and the Prix Médicis in 1978.