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Louis Aragon

1897 - 1982

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Louis Aragon (French: [lwi aʁaɡɔ̃] ; 3 October 1897 – 24 December 1982) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Louis Aragon is the 455th most popular writer (down from 437th in 2019), the 541st most popular biography from France (down from 516th in 2019) and the 77th most popular French Writer.

Louis Aragon was a French poet, writer, and member of the French Communist Party. He is most famous for his poetry, which often deals with themes of love and death.

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Among writers, Louis Aragon ranks 455 out of 7,302. Before him are Philip Larkin, Thomas De Quincey, Philip Roth, Demetrius Vikelas, Jo Nesbø, and Carl Spitteler. After him are Marguerite Yourcenar, Gabriela Mistral, Ahmad Yasawi, Baldassare Castiglione, Dan Brown, and Samuel Butler.

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Among people born in 1897, Louis Aragon ranks 22. Before him are Jiroemon Kimura, Anthony Eden, Lucky Luciano, Wilhelm Reich, Georges Bataille, and Odd Hassel. After him are Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia, Ferenc Szálasi, Frank Capra, Gordon Allport, Kurt Schuschnigg, and Norbert Elias. Among people deceased in 1982, Louis Aragon ranks 22. Before him are William Giauque, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Vasily Chuikov, Karl von Frisch, Erving Goffman, and Stanford Moore. After him are Gilles Villeneuve, Glenn Gould, Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, Barack Obama Sr., Hugo Theorell, and Gala Dalí.

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In France

Among people born in France, Louis Aragon ranks 541 out of 6,770. Before him are William II of England (1056), Emma of Normandy (985), Hippolyte Fizeau (1819), Joseph Joffre (1852), Augustin-Jean Fresnel (1788), and Anne Robert Jacques Turgot (1727). After him are Jean Lannes (1769), John Vianney (1786), André Frédéric Cournand (1895), Jacques Monod (1910), Allan Kardec (1804), and Baldwin II of Jerusalem (1060).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Louis Aragon ranks 77. Before him are Arthur de Gobineau (1816), Jacques Prévert (1900), William of Rubruck (1220), Gregory of Tours (538), Georges Bataille (1897), and Henri Barbusse (1873). After him are Charles, Duke of Orléans (1394), Françoise Sagan (1935), André Maurois (1885), René Guénon (1886), Joris-Karl Huysmans (1848), and Marie-Antoine Carême (1784).

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