Blaise Cendrars
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Cendrars posing in the uniform of the Légion étrangère in 1916, a few months after the amputation of his right arm
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Attila József Lit.West
a Swiss-born novelist and poet who became a naturalized French citizen in 1916. He was a writer of considerable influence in the European modernist movement.
Born
Frédéric-Louis Sauser 1 September 1887 La Chaux-de-Fonds, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Died
21 January 1961 (aged 73) Paris, France
Occupation
Novelist, poet
adultbasic
Switzerland
era
1800+
Literary movement
Modernism, Futurism