Leon Damas
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 46 years ago |
Date of birth | March 28,1912 |
Zodiac sign | Aries |
Born | Cayenne |
French Guiana | |
Date of died | January 22,1978 |
Died | Washington |
D.C. | |
United States | |
Spouse | Marietta Campos Damas |
Martinican Isabelle Victoire Vecilia Achille | |
Nationality | French |
Job | Politician |
Poet | |
Education | Inalco |
School Schoelcher | |
University of Paris | |
Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes | |
Institut d'ethnologie | |
Books | Pigments |
Black-Label: poèmes | |
Parents | Ernest Damas |
Bathilde Damas | |
Awards | Prix littéraire des Caraïbes |
Albums | Poesie de la Negritude: Léon Damas Reads Selected Poems from Pigments, Graffiti, Black Label, and Nevralgies |
Date of Reg. | |
Date of Upd. | |
ID | 1587973 |
Leon Damas Life story
Léon-Gontran Damas was a French poet and politician. He was one of the founders of the Négritude movement. He also used the pseudonym Lionel Georges André Cabassou.