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Surrealism
Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for the visual artworks and writings of the group members.
Surrealist works feature the element of surprise, unexpected juxtapositions and non sequitur; however, many Surrealist artists and writers regard their work...
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Tristan Tzara
Tristan Tzara (French pronunciation: [tʁistɑ̃ d͡zaˈʁa]; born Samuel or Samy Rosenstock, also known as S. Samyro; April 16 [O.S. April 4] 1896–December 25, 1963) was a Romanian and French avant-garde poet, essayist and performance artist. Also active...
Date of birth:
- Apr 16, 1896
Date of death:
- Dec 25, 1963 (age 67 years)
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André Breton
André Breton (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃dʀe bʀəˈtɔ̃]) (February 19, 1896 – September 28, 1966) was a French writer, poet, and surrealist theorist, and is best known as the principal founder of Surrealism. His writings include the Surrealist Manifesto...
Date of birth:
- Feb 19, 1896
Date of death:
- Sep 28, 1966 (age 70 years)
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Guillaume Apollinaire
Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki, known as Guillaume Apollinaire (French pronunciation: [ɡijom apɔliˈnɛʁ]; Rome, August 26, 1880 – November 9, 1918, Paris) was a French poet, writer and art critic born in Italy to a Polish mother....
Date of birth:
- Aug 26, 1880
Date of death:
- Nov 9, 1918 (age 38 years)
Federico García Lorca
Federico García Lorca (Spanish pronunciation: [feðeˈɾiko ɣarˈθia ˈlorka]) (5 June 1898 – 19 August 1936) was a Spanish poet, dramatist and theatre director. García Lorca achieved international recognition as an emblematic member of the Generation of...
Date of birth:
- Jun 5, 1898
Date of death:
- Aug 19, 1936 (age 38 years)
Place of birth:
Jacques Prévert
Jacques Prévert (French pronunciation: [ʒak pʀeˈvɛʀ]; 4 February 1900 - 11 April 1977) was a French poet and screenwriter.
Prévert was born at Neuilly-sur-Seine and grew up in Paris. After receiving his Certificat d'études attesting to his having...
Date of birth:
- Feb 4, 1900
Date of death:
- Apr 11, 1977 (age 77 years)
Place of birth:
Octavio Paz
Octavio Paz Lozano (March 31, 1914 – April 19, 1998) was a Mexican writer, poet, and diplomat, and the winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature.
Paz was born to Octavio Paz Solórzano and Josefina Lozano. His father was an active supporter of...
Date of birth:
- Mar 31, 1914
Date of death:
- Apr 19, 1998 (age 84 years)
Place of birth:
Yumeno Kyusaku
Kyūsaku Yumeno (夢野 久作, Yumeno Kyūsaku); (4 January 1889 - 11 March 1936) was the pen name of an author in early Showa period Japan. The pen name literally means "a person who always dreams." His real name was Sugiyama Taido. He wrote detective...
Date of birth:
- Jan 4, 1889
Date of death:
- Mar 11, 1936 (age 47 years)
John Ashbery
John Ashbery (born July 28, 1927) is an American poet. He has won nearly every major American award for poetry and is recognized as one of America's most important, though still controversial, poets. In an article on Elizabeth Bishop in his Selected...
Date of birth:
- Jul 28, 1927 (age 82 years)
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Gherasim Luca
Gherasim Luca (or Gherashim Luca) (23 July 1913 – 9 February 1994) was a Surrealist theorist and Romanian poet. He frequently cited in the works of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari.
Born in Bucharest the son of a Jewish tailor, he spoke Yiddish,...
Date of birth:
- Jul 23, 1913
Date of death:
- Feb 9, 1994 (age 80 years)
Bruno Schulz
Bruno Schulz (July 12, 1892 – November 19, 1942) was a Polish writer, graphic artist and literary critic, who is widely regarded as one of the great Polish-language prose stylists of the 20th century. Schulz was born, and spent his entire life in...
Date of birth:
- Jul 12, 1892
Date of death:
- Nov 19, 1942 (age 50 years)
Dolfi Trost
Dolfi or Dolphi Trost (1916, Brăila–1966, Chicago, Illinois) was a Romanian surrealist poet, artist, and theorist, and the instigator of entopic graphomania. Together with Gherasim Luca, he was the author of Dialectique de la dialectique (1945). He...
Date of birth:
- 1916
Date of death:
- 1966 (age 50 years)
Daniil Kharms
Daniil Kharms (Russian: Дании́л Ива́нович Хармс; 30 December [O.S. 17 December] 1905 – 2 February 1942) was an early Soviet-era surrealist and absurdist poet, writer and dramatist. He signed his name in Latin alphabet as Daniel Charms.
Daniil...
Date of birth:
- 1906
Date of death:
- Feb 2, 1942 (age 36 years)
Place of birth:
Nishiwaki Junzaburo
Junzaburō Nishiwaki (西脇順三郎, Nishiwaki Junzaburō, 20 January 1894 – 5 June 1982) was a contemporary Japanese poet and literary critic, active in Shōwa period Japan.
Nishiwaki was born in Ojiya in Niigata prefecture, where his father was a banker. He...
Date of birth:
- Jan 20, 1894
Date of death:
- 1982 (age 88 years)
Ilarie Voronca
Ilarie Voronca (pen name of Eduard Marcus; December 31, 1903, Brăila—April 8, 1946, Paris) was a Romanian-French avant-garde poet and essayist.
Voronca was of Jewish ethnicity. In his early years, he was connected with Eugen Lovinescu's Sburătorul...
Date of birth:
- Dec 31, 1903
Date of death:
- Apr 8, 1946 (age 42 years)
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Saşa Pană
Saşa Pană (pen name of Alexandru Binder; August 8, 1902—August 22, 1981) was a Romanian avant-garde poet, novelist, and short story writer.
Born to a Jewish family in Bucharest, he trained as a physician in Iaşi and Bucharest, becoming a qualified...
Date of birth:
- Aug 8, 1902
Date of death:
- Aug 22, 1981 (age 79 years)
Édouard Jaguer
Edouard Jaguer (1924-2006) was a French poet and art critic linked with the surrealist movement.
He was born on 8 August 1924 in Paris and died on 9 May 2006 in Paris.
He was involved with many groups and revues including:
Date of birth:
- 1924
Date of death:
- 2006 (age 82 years)
Geo Bogza
Geo Bogza (born Gheorghe Bogza; February 6, 1908-September 14, 1993) was a Romanian avant-garde theorist, poet, and journalist, known for his left-wing and communist political convictions. As a young man in the interwar period, he was known as a...
Date of birth:
- Feb 6, 1908
Date of death:
- Sep 14, 1993 (age 85 years)
Place of birth:
Gellu Naum
Gellu Naum (August 1, 1915 – September 29, 2001) was a prominent Romanian poet, dramatist, novelist, children's writer, and translator. He is remembered as the founder of the Romanian Surrealist group. The artist Lyggia Naum, his wife, was the...
Date of birth:
- Aug 1, 1915
Date of death:
- Sep 29, 2001 (age 86 years)
Joan Salvat-Papasseit
Joan Salvat-Papasseit (Barcelona, 16 May 1894 - 7 August 1924) was a Catalan poet, though he also wrote articles, manifestos and other prose of a political and social nature. He wrote primarily in Catalan, although he had an early period of essay...
Date of birth:
- May 16, 1894
Date of death:
- Aug 7, 1924 (age 30 years)
Place of birth:
Dane Zajc
Dane Zajc (26 October 1929 – 20 October 2005) was a Slovenian poet and playwright. President of the Slovene Writers' Association (1991–1995), awarded the prestigious Prešeren Award for lifetime achievement (1981). Together with Edvard Kocbek, he is...
Date of birth:
- Oct 26, 1929
Date of death:
- Oct 20, 2005 (age 76 years)
Grace Andreacchi
Grace Andreacchi (born 3 December 1954) is a U.S.-born author known for her blend of poetic language and modernism with a post-modernist sensibility. Andreacchi is active as a novelist, poet and playwright.
Grace Andreacchi was born and grew up in...
Date of birth:
- Dec 3, 1954 (age 55 years)
Place of birth:
Iordan Chimet
Iordan Chimet (November 18, 1924 – May 23, 2006) was a Romanian poet, children's writer and essayist, whose work was inspired by Surrealism and Onirism. He is also known as a memoirist, theater, art and film critic, book publisher and translator....
Date of birth:
- Nov 18, 1924
Date of death:
- May 23, 2006 (age 81 years)
Rab Townsend
Rab Townsend is a musician, composer, writer, and photographer. He was born in Bancroft, Ontario, Canada.
Under the aliases of Dj_Starchild and Aetherius, Rab has composed and self-produced four albums of electronic and experimental music since...
Under the aliases of Dj_Starchild and Aetherius, Rab has composed and self-produced four albums of electronic and experimental music since...
Date of birth:
- Aug 17, 1986 (age 23 years)
Jože Javoršek
Jože Javoršek was the pen name of Jože Brejc (20 October 1920 – 2 September 1990), a Slovenian playwright, writer, poet, translator and essayist. He is regarded as one of the greatest masters of style and language among Slovene authors. A complex...
Date of birth:
- Oct 20, 1920
Date of death:
- Sep 2, 1990 (age 69 years)
Place of birth:
Anatol E. Baconsky
Anatol E. Baconsky (June 16, 1925 – March 4, 1977), also known as A. E. Bakonsky, Baconschi or Baconski, was a Romanian modernist poet, essayist, translator, novelist, publisher, literary and art critic. Praised for his late approach to poetry and...
Date of birth:
- Jun 16, 1925
Date of death:
- Mar 4, 1977 (age 51 years)
Max Blecher
Max Blecher (September 8, 1909 – 1938) was born on September 8, 1909 in the town of Botoşani located in northeastern Romania. His father was a well-to-do Jewish merchant and the owner of a porcelain shop. He attended primary and secondary school in...
Date of birth:
- Sep 8, 1909
Date of death:
- May 31, 1938 (age 28 years)
Emma Andijewska
Emma Andijewska (or Emma Andiievska, Ukrainian: Емма Андієвська) (*March 19, 1931 in Donetsk) is a modern Ukrainian poet, writer and painter. Her works are marked with surrealist style. Some of Andijewska's works have been translated to English and...
Date of birth:
- Mar 19, 1931 (age 78 years)
Place of birth:
Madda Holda
Madda Holda was Saşa Pană's sister. She has written a small number of absurd prose pieces, which were collected in 1931 and published at Saşa Pană's own publishing house.
Stephan Roll
Stephan Roll or Ştefan Roll (the alias of Gheorghe Dinu) was born in current Greek Macedonia. His father was a milkman who owned a large dairy products shop in Bucharest - a place which was often attended by poets and artists of the Romanian avant...
Date of birth:
- Jun 5, 1903 (age 106 years)
Paul Păun
Paul Păun or Paúl Yvenez (born Paul Zaharia on 5 September 1915, Bucharest and died on 9 April 1994, Haifa) was a Romanian Surrealist artist and writer, being a doctor at the same time. Inspired mostly by Geo Bogza's style, he debuted in 1930 in the...
Date of birth:
- Sep 5, 1915 (age 94 years)
Constantin Nisipeanu
Constantin Nisipeanu (1907-1999) was a Romanian Surrealist.
Date of birth:
- Oct 10, 1907 (age 102 years)
