Jean Joubert was born in 1928 in Châlette-sur-Loing (Loiret), France. He lived in Languedoc for a quarter-century and taught American literature at the Université Paul Valéry in Montpellier. He published novels and children’s stories as well as poetry. His collection Poems: 1955-1975 (Grasset, 1975) was awarded the prize of the Académie Mallarmé in 1978.
