Michel Leiris

1901 - 1990

photo credits: Wikimedia Commons

movement: surrealism

country of citizenship: France

native language: French

languages spoken, written or signed: French

educated at: Lycée Janson-de-Sailly

occupation: anthropologist, writer, ethnologist, poet, diarist, ethnographer, collector

award received: Grand prix national des Lettres

Julien Michel Leiris (French: [lɛʁis]; 20 April 1901 in Paris – 30 September 1990 in Saint-Hilaire, Essonne) was a French surrealist writer and ethnographer. Part of the Surrealist group in Paris, Leiris became a key member of the College of Sociology with Georges Bataille and head of research in ethnography at the CNRS. Source: Wikipedia (en)