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.
- Occupation
- physician writer, journalist, politician, poet
- Citizenship
- France
- Born
- October 3, 1897
- Died
- December 24, 1982
