# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/arthur-rimbaud
# Generated: 2026-08-31T14:40:51.788Z

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name: "Arthur Rimbaud"
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description: "He wrote poems that cracked open the future of literature, then walked away at twenty and never looked back. Rimbaud spent more years as a gunrunner and merchant in Africa than he ever did as a poet, but the work he left behind—surreal, transgressive, impossible—made him a ghost every modernist still chases."
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birthDate: "1854-10-20"
deathDate: "1891-11-10"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in Charleville in 1854, Rimbaud excelled as a student and started writing young, then ditched formal education in his teens to run toward Paris during the Franco-Prussian War. In his late adolescence he produced nearly all his literary output—including A Season in Hell and Illuminations—while locked in a hectic, sometimes violent two-year romance with the poet Paul Verlaine. At twenty he assembled Illuminations and stopped writing literature entirely. He spent the next seventeen years travelling three continents as a merchant and explorer, a restless libertine turned trader, until cancer killed him just after his thirty-seventh birthday in 1891. The poems he abandoned became a cornerstone of symbolism and a prefiguring jolt to surrealism, the work of someone who torched the template and left before anyone could ask him to explain.