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Blaise Cendrars
Blaise Cendrars | |
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 Cendrars posing in the uniform of the Légion étrangère in 1916, a few months after the amputation of his right arm | |
| Born | Frédéric-Louis Sauser 1 September 1887 La Chaux-de-Fonds, Neuchâtel, Switzerland |
| Died | 21 January 1961 (aged 73) Paris, France |
| Occupation | Novelist, poet |
| Literary movement | Modernism, Futurism |
| Notable works | Moravagine |
Frédéric-Louis Sauser (1 September 1887 – 21 January 1961),[1] better known as Blaise Cendrars, was a Swiss-born novelist and poet who became a naturalized French citizen in 1916. He was a writer of considerable influence in the European modernist movement.
- ^ Cendrars, Blaise (1992). Complete poems. Berkeley: University of California Press. p. xxii. ISBN 9780520065802.
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