Henri Deluy

{{Short description|French poet (1931–2021)}}

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{{Expand French|topic=bio|Henri Deluy|date=September 2015}}

Henri Deluy (25 April 1931 – 20 July 2021){{cite news|url=https://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2021/07/20/mort-d-henri-deluy-directeur-d-action-poetique_6088935_3382.html|title=Mort d’Henri Deluy, directeur d’" Action poétique "|work=Le Monde|date=20 July 2021}} was a French poet.{{r|Sabatier 1975}}

Deluy was born in Marseille, France.{{r|Lendemains 1990}} When he was 13, growing up in Aix-en-Provence, he sent some of his poems to the local poet Blaise Cendrars. Cendrars responded by correcting some grammatical errors, which served to encourage Deluy. Five years later, Deluy interrupted his studies and hitchhiked to England, where he supported himself fruit-picking. He then decided to go to Sweden, but while travelling through the Netherlands, he met his first wife, who introduced him to a whole generation of ultra-modernist poets such as Adriaan Roland Holst, Lucebert, and Gerrit Kouwenaar. This proved to have a significant impact on his development as a writer, translator, and editor.{{Citation needed|date=August 2021}}

Henri Deluy was editor of Action poétique.{{cite journal |last1=Wagstaff |first1=Emma |title=1968 and Translation in Three French Reviews: Europe, Action poétique and Change |journal=Forum for Modern Language Studies |date=25 October 2023 |volume=59 |issue=3 |pages=426–443 |doi=10.1093/fmls/cqad047 |url=https://academic.oup.com/fmls/article/59/3/426/7288556 |access-date=6 June 2024|doi-access=free }}

Deluy died in France on 20 July 2021.