biography
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Cendrars, Blaise
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pseudonym of Frédéric Louis Sauser
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pronunciation:
[sãdrah(r)]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1887–1961)
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| biography:
| Writer, poet, and traveller, born in La Chaux-de-Fonds, W Switzerland. When he was 15 he ran away from home to work for a jewel merchant with whom he travelled through Russia, Persia, and China. He wrote his first long poem in America, Pâques à New York (1912, Easter in New York). His novels include La Confession de Dan Yack (1927–29, trans Antarctic Fugue), and L'Or (1925, trans Sutter's Gold). |
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