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Edmond Jabès

Died in 1991

Edmond Jabès was born in Cairo in April 1912, into a French-speaking Jewish family, of Italian nationality according to a German lexicon of Jewish philosophers. He frequented the avant-garde circles of Cairo and became close to Max Jacob. Forced, because he was Jewish, to leave Egypt after the Suez crisis, he settled in Paris in 1957 and took French nationality in 1967. He received the grand prix national de poésie in 1987 and died in Paris on 2 January 1991.

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