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Francis Ponge
French essayist and poet
Francis Jean Gaston Alfred Ponge (French:[pɔ̃ʒ]; 27 March 1899 – 6 August 1988) was a French poet.
He developed a form of prose poem, minutely examining everyday objects.
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He was the third recipient of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1974.
Life
Ponge was born into a Protestant family in Montpellier, the son of Armand Ponge, a banker, and his wife Juliette, née Saurel.[1] He studied in Paris at the Sorbonne and the École de droit where he read law,[1] In 1918–1919 he served in the French army.
In 1919 he joined the Socialist Party.[2]
Ponge worked for the Parisian publishing companies Gallimard (1923–1931) and Hachette (1931–1937), and before the outbreak of the Second World War he was briefly an insurance salesman.[1] His earliest poems were published in 1923,[3] and he established a reputation in French literary circles, principally for his contribution