Died 1982-12-24.
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Louis Aragon
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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Born 3 October 1897 · Died 24 December 1982 · Q4128
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1982· 3 entries
“Je crois qu'on pense à partir de ce qu'on écrit, et pas le contraire”
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“Le roman, c'est la clé des chambres interdites de notre maison”
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1977· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Friendship of Peoples (1977).
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1972· 1 entry
Awarded Order of the October Revolution (1972).
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1970· 1 entry
Supported the Nobel Prize awarded to Solzhenitsyn
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1968· 1 entry
Led him to a critical preface published in a translation of one of Milan Kundera's books (La Plaisanterie)
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1965· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate of the University of Moscow (1965).
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1964· 1 entry
And launched the poetic collection Petite sirène, which collected works by Pablo Neruda, Eugène Guillevic, Nicolás Guillén, but also less known poets such as Dominique Grandmont, Alain Lance or Jean Ristat
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1957· 1 entry
Awarded Lenin Peace Prize (1957).
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1956· 2 entries
Aragon didn't support the Hungarian Revolution, provoking the dissolution of the Comité national des écrivains, which Vercors quit, and was granted the Lenin Peace Prize, but later he condemned Soviet totalitarianism and
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Aragon suffered a deep personal crisis, but it was not until the 1960s when he started openly criticizing the Soviet regime
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1954· 1 entry
Strophes pour se souvenir in commemoration of the role of foreigners in the Resistance, which celebrated the Francs-Tireurs et Partisans de la Main d'Oeuvre Immigrée (FTP-MOI)
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1943· 1 entry
After being smuggled out of occupied France by his friend and publisher François Lachenal
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1940· 1 entry
Awarded Croix de guerre 1939–1945 (1940).
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1939· 2 entries
And awarded the Croix de Guerre (War Cross) and the military medal for acts of bravery
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Married Russian-born author Elsa Triolet, the sister of Lilya Brik, a mistress and then partner of Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky
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1936· 1 entry
Awarded Prix Renaudot (1936).
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1933· 1 entry
Began to write for the party's newspaper, L'Humanité, in the "news in brief" section
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1929· 1 entry
"shortly before he completed his transition from Snarxism to Marxism", as Martin Gardner puts it
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1928· 1 entry
And she became his muse starting in the 1940s
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1924· 1 entry
With André Breton and Philippe Soupault, under the pen-name "Aragon"
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1923· 1 entry
During the trial of Germaine Berton, Aragon released a 29 portrait piece in La Révolution surréaliste in support of her, stating Berton "use[d] terrorist means, in particular murder, to safeguard, at the risk of losing e
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1897· 1 entry
Born 1897-10-03.
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