Louis Aragon

Biography

Louis Aragon was a French poet and leading voice of the surrealist movement in France, co-founding the surrealist review Littérature with André Breton and Philippe Soupault. A novelist and editor, he was also a long-time member of the Communist Party and a member of the Académie Goncourt. He was frequently nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature after 1959. His early life experiences would later influence his poetry.