Philippe Soupault
France (1897—1990)Soupault’s early collection Aquarium was supported by Apollinaire, who introduced him to André Breton. The two, together with Louis Aragon, founded the review Littérature, moving away from the Dada movement and laying the foundations of Surrealism. He co-authored Les Champs magnétiques with Breton, using their “automatic writing” technique. He returned to writing verse with Westwego and Georgia. From the 1920s he increasingly focused on novels and journalism. In 1933 he met Ré Richter and travelled with her throughout Europe and North Africa. He directed Radio Tunis for three years and was arrested by the Vichy government, but managed to escape to Algiers and then to the United States, returning to France only after WWII.
