Louis Aragon
October 3, 1897 –December 24, 1982
Physician writer, Journalist, Politician, Poet, Novelist, Art critic
Lived 85 years
- Born in
- 16th arrondissement of Paris
- Passed away in
- 7th arrondissement of Paris
Louis Aragon (French: [lwi aʁaɡɔ̃] ; 3 October 1897 – 24 December 1982) was a French poet who was one of the leading voices of the surrealist movement in France. He co-founded with André Breton and Philippe Soupault the surrealist review Littérature. He was also a novelist and editor, a long-time member of the Communist Party and a member of the Académie Goncourt. After 1959, he was a frequent nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Awards: Prix Renaudot, Order of the October Revolution, Order of Friendship of Peoples, Lenin Peace Prize, Croix de guerre 1939–1945, Croix de guerre 1914–1918, Médaille militaire, honorary doctorate of the University of Moscow, Resistance Medal Education: Lycée Carnot
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