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Aimé Césaire
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Aimé Césaire

1913 – 2008 · aged 95

Martinican writer, poet and politician (1913–2008)

Born
26 Jun 1913 · Basse-Pointe
Died
17 Apr 2008 · Fort-de-France

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 109 years
  1. 26 Jun 1913BornBorn in Basse-Pointe
  2. 1945 – 2001RoleMayor of Fort-de-France
  3. 1945 – 1956RoleMember of the French National Assembly
  4. 1956 – 1993RoleMember of the French National Assembly
  5. 1958 – 2005RolePresident
  6. 1968AwardViareggio-Versilia International Prize
  7. 1983 – 1988RoleChairperson
  8. 1994AwardAmerica Award in Literature
  9. 17 Apr 2008DiedDied in Fort-de-France

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1913 – 2008).

  1. 1914 – 1918World War I
  2. 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
  3. 1917Balfour Declaration
  4. 1917February Revolution
  5. 1917October Revolution
  6. 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
  7. 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
  8. 1920Treaty of Versailles
  9. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  10. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  11. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  12. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  13. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  14. 1938Munich Agreement
  15. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  16. 1939 – 1945World War II
  17. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  18. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  19. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  20. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  21. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  22. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  23. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  24. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  25. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  26. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  27. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  28. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  29. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  30. 1956Suez Crisis
  31. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  32. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  33. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  34. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  35. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  36. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  37. 1968Prague Spring
  38. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  39. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  40. 19741974 FIFA World Cup

Biography

Aimé Fernand David Césaire (French: [ɛme fɛʁnɑ̃ david sezɛʁ]; 26 June 1913 – 17 April 2008) was an Afro-Martinican poet, author, and politician. He was one of the founders of the Négritude movement in Francophone literature and coined the word "négritude" in French.

He founded the Parti progressiste martiniquais in 1958. He served in the French National Assembly from 1945 to 1993 and as President of the Regional Council of Martinique from 1983 to 1988. He was the Mayor of Fort-de-France for 56 years, from 1945 to 2001.

His works include the book-length poem Cahier d'un retour au pays natal (1939), Une Tempête, a response to William Shakespeare's play The Tempest, and Discours sur le colonialisme (Discourse on Colonialism), an essay describing the strife between the colonizers and the colonized. Césaire's works have been translated into many languages.

Text from the Wikipedia article Aimé Césaire, CC BY-SA 4.0

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