Louis Aragon

Louis Aragon
an older white man wearing a dark suit stands in an interior in front of bookshelves and a painting
Portrait of Aragon, before 1982.
Born(1897-10-03)3 October 1897
Paris, France
Died24 December 1982(1982-12-24) (aged 85)
Paris, France
NationalityFrench
Notable worksLes Lettres françaises, Pour un réalisme socialiste

Louis Aragon (French: [lwi aʁaɡɔ̃] ; 3 October 1897 – 24 December 1982) 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.[1][2][3] 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.[4]

  1. ^ Martin Travers (2001). European Literature from Romanticism to Postmodernism: A Reader in Aesthetic Practice. A&C Black. pp. 176–. ISBN 978-0-8264-4748-7.
  2. ^ "Louis Aragon | French author". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 19 October 2020.
  3. ^ "Louis Aragon". Oxford Reference. Retrieved 19 October 2020.
  4. ^ "Nomination Archive". NobelPrize.org. 1 April 2020. Retrieved 22 March 2021.