Alain Bosquet

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Poet, novelist and translator Alain Bosquet studied at the Universite Libre in Brussels, Belgium, in 1938. He took a special interest in Romance philology and started a poetry magazine. He went to New York, NY, in 1942, where he helped edit the Free French magazine Voix de France and created a literary review with Russian writer Yvan Goll. He settled more or less permanently in Paris, France, in 1951, and began contributing reviews and essays to Nouvelle Revue Francaise, Le Monde and Figaro. He taught French literature in the US in the late 1950s.

Author: Kirkup, James
Bosquet, Alain

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Ryuichi Tamura

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Poet and critic Ryuichi Tamura graduated from the Third Tokyo Commercial School in 1940 and from an arts course at Meiji University in 1943. He served as an instructor with the Naval Flying Corps during the rest of the second world war, and then worked for three years as head of the editorial department at publishing house Hayakawa Shobo. He had begun writing poetry as a teenager, and became a key member of the Arechi group in the early post-war period.

Author: Kirkup, James
Tamura, Ryuichi

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Kinichi Sawaki

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Poet Kinichi Sawaki was born in Toyama, Japan, in 1919. He studied at Kanazawa University and the University of Tokyo, and during the second half of the 20th century became one of the leading figures in Japanese haiku.

Author: Kirkup, James
Sawaki, Kinichi

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