Tag: Jules Supervielle L’enfant de la haute mer
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Portrait of French-Uruguayan poet Jules Supervielle, Montevideo, 1944
Jules Supervielle (1884-1960) was a French writer and poet who was born in Montevideo and grew up between Uruguay and France. He started publishing poetry collections (Débarcadères, Gravitations), novels, short stories and plays in the early 1920s. He spent the war years in Uruguay, writing and translating, and gaining in recognition. In 1946 he returned…