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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Louis Ferdinand Auguste Destouches, writing as Louis-Ferdinand Céline, published Journey to the End of the Night in 1932, a novel whose working-class rhythms and bleak view of humanity won the Prix Renaudot and split French letters down the middle. He pushed further in Death on the Installment Plan (1936), Guignol's Band (1944), and Castle to Castle (1957), building what Maurice Nadeau called the French equivalent of Joyce's reinvention of English. From 1937 he published antisemitic polemics calling for military alliance with Nazi Germany, continued espousing those views under occupation, and in 1944 fled to Germany and then Denmark. A French court convicted him of collaboration in 1951; a military tribunal pardoned him soon after. He returned to France, resumed work as a physician and author, and died in 1961 — his novels canonical, his name still a live wire.