Author · Martinique (France)
Aimé Césaire
Died in 2008
Aimé Césaire was born on 26 June 1913 in Basse-Pointe, in Martinique, the son of a tax official. A pupil at the Lycée Schœlcher in Fort-de-France, he continued his studies in Paris, at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand, where he met Léopold Sédar Senghor, and then entered the École normale supérieure. In 1935, with Senghor and Léon-Gontran Damas, he founded a student journal, from which the négritude movement emerged. Elected mayor of Fort-de-France in 1945, he remained in office until 2001, and was deputy for Martinique until 1993. He died in Fort-de-France on 17 April 2008.
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