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Blaise Meliani
Sign in to saveAlso known as Frederic Louis Sauser, Frédéric Sauser, Blaise Cendrars (Frédéric Sauser)
Swiss writer (1887-1961)
Film & TV
Known for
- Acaba de Chegar ao Brasil o Bello Poeta Francez Blaise Cendrars — Self (archive footage)1972
- Venom and Eternity — Self1952
via TMDB
Key facts
- Born
- Frédéric-Louis Sauser , ( 1887-09-01 ) 1 September 1887, La Chaux-de-Fonds , Neuchâtel , Switzerland
- Died
- 21 January 1961 (1961-01-21) (aged 73), Paris, France
- Occupation
- Novelist , poet
- Literary movement
- Modernism , Futurism
- Notable works
- Sutter's Gold [ fr ] , Moravagine , Lice [ fr ]
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- La Chaux-de-Fonds
- Place of death
- Paris
- Languages spoken
- French
- Native language
- French
- Conflict
- World War I
- Military branch
- Foreign Legion
- Image
- Cendrars 1916.jpg
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- Commons category
- Blaise Cendrars
- date of birth
- 1887-09-01
- date of death
- 1961-02-21
- archives at
- Swiss Literary Archives
- place of burial
- Le Tremblay-sur-Mauldre
- birth name
- Frédéric Louis Sauser
- name in native language
- Blaise Cendrars
- has works in the collection
- Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec
- medical condition
- amputation
- writing language
- French
- pseudonym
- Diogene
- P12674
- Montgolfier
- municipal affiliation of a Swiss national
- Sigriswil
via Wikidata · CC0
Works in European collections
2 objects attributed to Blaise Meliani, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Early years and education
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Blaise Meliani” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.