French poet and editor. During the Second World War he took part in the French Resistance movement. He founded, among other things, the famous line of books Poètes d’aujourd’hui (Contemporary poets) in 1944, which published 270 books of poets both famous and unknown (such as an anthology of modern accursed poets in 1972, Poètes maudits daujourdhui: 1946-1970). Together François Lachenal, Paul Eluard and Jean Lescure, he gathers in 1943 .the texts of many poets of the French Resistance, which he published in Les Editions de Minuit under the title: L’honneur des poètes. Among the prizes and orders he received, he was made a commander of the Légion dhonneur and in 1976 Laureate Of The International Botev Prize. He died 4 November 1987. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less
- Born on Friday 5 January 1906, in Paris
- Pierre Seghers was a French poet, writer, publisher, and literary critic.
- He was the founder of the publishing house La Découverte, which published works by many important writers, including Pablo Neruda, Bertolt Brecht, and Aimé Césaire.
- Seghers was also a member of the French Resistance during World War II.
- He was arrested by the Gestapo in 1942 and imprisoned for two years.
- After the war, Seghers continued to write and publish poetry, as well as literary criticism.
- He was awarded the Grand Prix de Poésie de l'Académie française in 1994.
- Seghers died on 21 July 2007 at the age of 101.
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