Blaise Cendrars

Blaise Cendrars
Cendrars posing in the uniform of the Légion étrangère in 1916, a few months after the amputation of his right arm
Born	Frédéric-Louis Sauser (1887-09-01)1 September 1887 La Chaux-de-Fonds, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Died	21 January 1961(1961-01-21) (aged 73) Paris, France
Occupation	Novelist, poet
Literary movement	Modernism, Futurism
Notable works	Moravagine

Frédéric-Louis Sauser (1 September 1887 – 21 January 1961),^[1] better known as Blaise Cendrars, was a Swiss-born novelist and poet who became a naturalized French citizen in 1916. He was a writer of considerable influence in the European modernist movement.