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{{Short description|French poet, jazz critic and flâneur (1929–2024)}}
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'''Jacques Réda''' (24 January 1929 – 30 September 2024) was a French poet, jazz critic, and ''[[flâneur]]''. He was awarded the [[Prix Valery Larbaud]] in 1983, and was chief editor of the ''[[Nouvelle Revue Française]]'' from 1987 to 1996. Réda died on 30 September 2024, at the age of 95.<ref name="Kéchichian">{{cite web |last1=Kéchichian |first1=Patrick |title=Jacques Réda, poète prolifique et ancien directeur de la NRF, est mort |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2024/09/30/jacques-reda-poete-prolifique-et-ancien-directeur-de-la-nrf-est-mort_6339830_3382.html |publisher=Le Monde |access-date=30 September 2024 |language=fr |date=30 September 2024}}</ref>

==Works==
*''Amen'' (1968)
*''Récitatif'' (1971)
*''Les Ruines de Paris'' (1977) (''The Ruins of Paris'', trans. Mark Treharne, Reaktion Books, London, 1996)
*''L’Improviste, une lecture du jazz'' (1980) 
*''L’Herbe des talus'' (1984)
*''Celle qui vient à pas légers'' (1985)  
*''Jouer le jeu (L’Improviste II)'' (1985) 
*''Retour au calme'' (1989) (''Return to Calm'', trans. by Aaron Prevots, 2007, Host Publications, Inc.)
*''Le Sens de la marche'' (1990)
*''Aller aux mirabelles'', Gallimard (1991) (English translation: ''The Mirabelle Pickers'', trans. by [[Jennie Feldman]], Anvil Press Poetry, London 2012)

==References==
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==External links==
* {{IMDb name|2042689}}
* {{discogs artist|Jacques Réda}}
* France, Peter (Ed.) (1995). ''The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French.'' Oxford: Clarendon Press. {{ISBN|0-19-866125-8}}.
* ''Into the Deep Street. Seven Modern French Poets. 1938–2008'', Edited and translated by [[Jennie Feldman]] and [[Stephen Romer]], Anvil, London 2009.
* ''The Mirabelle Pickers'', Translated by [[Jennie Feldman]], Anvil, London 2012
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