Louis Aragon

✶October 3, 1897

†December 24, 1982

2 candles burning, 8 lit in all

About their life

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.

French poet (1897–1982)

☆ Follow

Biography from the article Louis Aragon on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.