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Léon-Gontran Damas

1912–1978

French Guiana

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Biography

Damas joined Aimé Césaire and Léopold Senghor in launching Négritude, and his 1937 collection Pigments was among the first works of the movement.

1928–2014

1924–1987

1913–2008