Roger Grenier (born September 19, 1919 in Caen, Calvados, France) is a French writer, journalist and radio animator. He is Regent of the Collège de Pataphysique. Young, he lived in Pau, where Andrélie opened a shop selling glasses. During the war, Roger Grenier attended Gaston Bachelard classes at the Sorbonne before actively participating in 1944 in the liberation of Paris. He joined Albert Camus in the newspaper Combat then in France Soir. Journalist, he followed post-war trials which inspired his first essay in 1949 Le Rôle d'accusé. Radio animator, writer for television and cinema, member of the Gallimard board, he is recipient of the Grand prix de l'Académie française in 1985 for his whole works, over than thirty works at this time, novels, including two best-sellers Le Palais d'hiver 1965 and Ciné-roman, Prix Femina in 1972, essays, souvenirs.