Blaise Cendrars

Blaise Cendrars
Cendrars posing in the uniform of the Légion étrangère in 1916, a few months after the amputation of his right arm
Cendrars posing in the uniform of the Légion étrangère in 1916, a few months after the amputation of his right arm
BornFrédéric-Louis Sauser
(1887-09-01)1 September 1887
La Chaux-de-Fonds, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Died21 January 1961(1961-01-21) (aged 73)
Paris, France
OccupationNovelist, poet
Literary movementModernism, Futurism
Notable worksMoravagine

Frédéric-Louis Sauser (1 September 1887 – 21 January 1961),[1] better known as Blaise Cendrars, was a Swiss-born novelist and poet who became a naturalized French citizen in 1916. He was a writer of considerable influence in the European modernist movement.

  1. ^ Cendrars, Blaise (1992). Complete poems. Berkeley: University of California Press. p. xxii. ISBN 9780520065802.