Charles Dobzynski
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Life
His family emigrated to FranceFrance
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
, where he was barely a year old. He narrowly escaped deportation during World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
. he published his first poem in 1944, in a youth newspaper of the Resistance. In 1949, Paul Eluard
Paul Éluard
Paul Éluard, born Eugène Émile Paul Grindel , was a French poet who was one of the founders of the surrealist movement.-Biography:...
presented his first poems in Les Lettres francais. On the proposal of Aragon, he entered the newspaper's editors Ce Soir. He has been a journalist
Journalist
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and film critic. He was an editor of the magazine Europe, with Pierre Abraham
Pierre Abraham
Pierre Abraham, was a French journalist and encyclopedist and military figure in the French Air Force during the world wars.-Biography:...
, and Pierre Gamarra
Pierre Gamarra
Pierre Gamarra was a French writer. He was a poet and novelist, but also a literary critic....
.
He is Chevalier of Arts and Letters
Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
The Ordre des Arts et des Lettres is an Order of France, established on 2 May 1957 by the Minister of Culture, and confirmed as part of the Ordre national du Mérite by President Charles de Gaulle in 1963...
, a member of the Académie Mallarmé
Académie Mallarmé
The Académie Mallarmé is a French literary academy of writers and poets, founded in 1937. Since 1976, the Académie has awarded the Prix Mallarmé literary prize at the Brive book fair....
, and president of the jury for the Apollinaire prize.