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Philippe Soupault
Philippe Soupault was a French poet, novelist, critic, and political activist, born in Chaville. He was active in Dadaism and later was instrumental in founding the Surrealist movement with André Breton. Soupault initiated the periodical Littérature together with writers Breton and Louis Aragon in Paris in 1919, which, for many, marks the beginnings of Surrealism. The first book of automatic writi…
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culture · French writer (1897–1990) · journalist · poet · writer · playwright · librettist · political activist · novelist · essayist · critic · radio personality · also Philippe Soupault, Philippe Souplault, Philippe Verneuil, Phillipe Soupault, Phillipe Soupalt, Soupault
Born 2 August 1897 · Died 12 March 1990 · Q336467
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2025· 1 entry
Moviefone: Philippe Soupault et le surréalisme - Where to Watch
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2021· 2 entries
Le Monde.fr: Philippe SOUPAULT Profils perdus d'Apollinaire, Proust Cendrars, Dada et autres
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Le Monde.fr: PHILIPPE SOUPAULT se déclare pour Labiche
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2016· 2 entries
Liberté: Philippe Soupault portraitiste
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City Lights Bookstore published a book of his essays entitled Lost Profiles: Memoirs of Cubism, Dada, and Surrealism as translated by Alan Bernheimer
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2013· 1 entry
Fabula: J.-J. Queloz, Philippe Soupault: écriture de soi et lecture d'autrui
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2010· 1 entry
Fabula: B. Mousli, Philippe Soupault
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2007· 1 entry
And published in issue 24 of the McSweeney's Quarterly
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2006· 2 entries
L'Humanité: Philippe Soupault, un homme de liberté
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Le Figaro: PHILIPPE SOUPAULT ET LES FLICS DE LA MAISON D'EN FACE
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1990· 2 entries
Died 1990-03-12.
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The year Soupault died, Serbian rock band Bjesovi recorded their version of his poem Georgia in Serbian
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1981· 1 entry
Awarded Saint-Simon Award (1981).
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1977· 1 entry
Awarded Grand prix national des Lettres (1977).
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1974· 1 entry
Awarded Grand Prix de Poésie (1974).
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1973· 1 entry
Awarded Grand prix de littérature de la SGDL (1973).
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1957· 1 entry
Wrote the libretto for Germaine Tailleferre's opera La Petite Sirène, based on Hans Christian Andersen's tale "The Little Mermaid"
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1937· 1 entry
And separated after the end of the war; he moved back to Europe, and she remained in New York for some time
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1933· 1 entry
At a reception at the Soviet Embassy in Paris, he met Ré Richter, and they decided to do some travel reportage together
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1927· 1 entry
Soupault, with the help of his then wife Marie-Louise, translated William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience into French
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1922· 1 entry
Was asked to reinvent the literary magazine Les Écrits nouveaux, for which he also created an editorial board
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1919· 1 entry
Which, for many, marks the beginnings of Surrealism
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1897· 1 entry
Born 1897-08-02.
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