Aimé Fernand David Césaire (; French: [ɛme fɛʁnɑ̃ david sezɛʁ]; 26 June 1913 – 17 April 2008) was a French poet, author, and politician. He was "one of the founders of the Négritude movement in Francophone literature" and coined the word négritude in French. He founded the Parti progressiste martiniquais in 1958, and served in the French National Assembly from 1945 to 1993 and as President of the Regional Council of Martinique from 1983 to 1988. His works include the book-length poem Cahier d'un retour au pays natal (1939), Une Tempête, a response to Shakespeare's play The Tempest, and Discours sur le colonialisme (Discourse on Colonialism), an essay describing the strife between the colonizers and the colonized. His works have been translated into many languages.
Aimé Césaire
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Эме Сезер, Aimé Fernand David Césaire, Еме Сезер, and 16 others
إيمي سيزير, Aimé Fernand Césaire, אמה סזר, エメ セゼール, Aimé Césaire, एइमे सेझैर, এমে সেজায়ার, A Césaire, A. Césaire, امه سزر, إيميه سيزير،, エメ・セゼール, Amatus Césaire, Césaire, 艾梅·塞泽尔, ئێمێ سێزار - Born:
- June 26, 1913
- Died:
- April 17, 2008
