Philippe Soupault
1897
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1990
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
movement: surrealism, Dada
country of citizenship: France
native language: French
occupation: journalist, poet, writer, playwright, librettist, political activist, novelist, essayist, critic, radio personality, publisher, artist, drawer, actor, broadcast journalist, prosaist
award received: Grand prix de littérature de la SGDL, Grand Prix de Poésie, Saint-Simon Award, Grand prix national des Lettres
influenced by: Guillaume Apollinaire
Philippe Soupault (2 August 1897 – 12 March 1990) was a French writer and poet, novelist, critic, and political activist. He was active in Dadaism and later was instrumental in founding the Surrealist movement with André Breton. Soupault initiated the periodical Littérature together with writers Breton and Louis Aragon in Paris in 1919, which, for many, marks the beginnings of Surrealism. The first book of automatic writing, Les Champs magnétiques (1920), was co-authored by Soupault and Breton. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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