Louis Aragon

1897–1982 · French

Also known as Arnaud Saint Romain , Arnaud de Saint-Roman , François la Colère , Témoin des martyrs

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.