Pierre Oster (6 March 1933 – 22 October 2020) was a French poet and editor born into a Luxembourgish family.[1] After his marriage to Angella Soussoueva in 1971, he often credited his wife in addition to himself on his works.
In 1961, Jean Paulhan helped set up a meeting between Oster and Saint-John Perse, who gave him great poetic motivation. He worked with Claude Tchou, who helped Oster cover Pascal Pia and the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Alongside Tchou and Jean-Claude Zylberstein, he published the first complete collection of Paulhan's works. In 1992, he was awarded the Grand prix de poésie de la SGDL. He contributed to the Babel collection, published by Actes Sud, while living in Mazamet. In June 2019, Oster was awarded the Grand Prix de Poésie of the Académie française.[2]
Pierre Oster died on 22 October 2020 at the age of 87.[3]
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