Blaise Cendrars
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 | |
| Born | Frédéric-Louis Sauser 1 September 1887 La Chaux-de-Fonds, Neuchâtel, Switzerland |
| Died | 21 January 1961 (aged 73) Paris, France |
| Occupation | Novelist, poet |
| Literary movement | Modernism, Futurism |
| Notable works | Sutter's Gold Moravagine Lice |
Frédéric-Louis Sauser (1 September 1887 – 21 January 1961), better known as Blaise Cendrars (French: [sɑ̃dʁaʁ]), was 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.