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.

3 October 1897

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Born in the same month (October 1897): Alicja Dorabialska • Billy Walker (footballer, born 1897) • Edith Head • Elijah Muhammad • Florence B. Seibert • Hans Speidel • Isabel Briggs Myers • Johannes Sikkar • Karl Olivecrona • Louis de Cazenave • Luigi Pavese • M. Bhaktavatsalam • Marcel Herrand • Marjorie Flack • Salimuzzaman Siddiqui • Thakin Mya