Louis Aragon
French poet (1897–1982)
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French poet who helped launch surrealism with Littérature magazine before pivoting to novels, Communist politics, and the Académie Goncourt. Racked up Nobel Prize nominations after 1959 like frequent flyer miles.
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Louis Aragon 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.
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