Louis Aragon

Louis Aragon (1897 to 1982) was a French poet and one of the leading voices of the surrealist movement in France. With André Breton and Philippe Soupault he co-founded 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. His career joined poetry, fiction, editing and political commitment, and he is remembered as a central figure of French surrealism and of twentieth-century French letters.