Writer

  Everything leads us to believe that there is a certain state of mind from which life and death, 
  the real and the imaginary, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, 
  height and depth are no longer perceived as contradictory."
  Andre Breton, Second Manifesto of Surrealism (1929)

 ==A - D==
 ==E - J==
 ==K - N==
 ==O - R==
 ==S - Z==

 == A - D ==
 Sarane Alexandrian - French -Philosopher - Art historian
 Ferdinand Alquie - French - Philosopher
 Guillaume Apollinaire  - French - Poet - art critic
 Louis Aragon - French - Poet - and editor
 Celine Arnauld - Romanian - Poet - Female
 Antonin Artaud - French - Actor -  Poet 
 Hugo Ball - German - Poet and one of the founders of the Dada movement.
 Djuna Barnes -  American - Female 
 Jacques Baron - French - Poet
 SamuelBeckett - Irish - playwright
 Jean-Louis Bedouin - French - Poet
 Max Bletcher? - Romanian
 Monny De Boully - Serbian
 Joe Bousquet - French - Poet 
 Pierre Brasseur - French - Actor 
 Gabriella Buffet - French -  avant-garde musician - Female
 Roger Caillois - French - sociologist and intellectual
 Leonora Carrington - English born, Mexican - Painter - Sculptor - Female
 Jean Carrive - French -  Translator
 Blaise Cendrars - French
 Jean-Francois Chabrun - French - Poet 
 Elisa Claro - Chilean - Painter - Female
 Rene Crevel - French 
 Ithell Colquhoun - British - Painter - playwright and Poet - Female
 Nancy Cunard - English - Female heiress, political activist, publisher and Muse
 Adrien Dax - French - Painter - Graphic Artist
 Lise Deharme - French - Poet - Female
 Joseph Delteil - French 
 Paul Dermee - Belgian - Poet
 Robert Desnos - French - Poet 
 Christian Dotremont - Belgian - Painter 
 Pierre Drieu La Rochelle - French - fascist
 Marcel Duhamel - French - actor - Screen Writer
 Germaine Dulac - French - Film Maker - Female
 Renee Dunan - French - critic - poet - Female

 == E - J == 
 Tony Earnshaw - English - Painter - box maker
 Ikbal El Alaily - Egyptian - Poet - Writer - Female
 Paul Eluard - French - Writer - Poet
 Andreas Embirikos - Greek - Poet
 Leila Ferraz - Brazilian - Poet - Photographer - Female
 Leonor Fini - Italian -Painter - Female
 Theodor Fraenkel - French
 David Gascoyne -  English - Poet 
 Renee Gauthier - French - "sleeper" - Female
 Jean Genbach - French
 Camille Goemans - Belgian - Art Patron
 Eugenio Granell - Spanish - Painter - Poet
 Tom Gutt - Belgian - Collagist and object-maker
 Irene Hamoir - Belgian - Poet - Female
 Richard Huelsenbeck - German - Poet and Dada drummer  
 Edouard Jaguer - French - Poet 
 Marcel Jean - French - Painter

 ==K - N==
 Simone Kahn - French - thinker and player of Surrealist Games - Female
 Nelly Kaplan - Argentine French - Film Maker - Female
 Annie Le Brun - French - Poet - Female 
 Robert Lebel - [[French] - art expert
 Marcel Lecomte - Belgian - Poet
 Michel Leiris - French  - Poet - Ethnographer 
 Denise Levy - French - Translator - Female
 Georges Limbour - French - Poet
 Mary Low - English - Poet - Female
 Pierre Mabille - French - surgeon and sociologist.
 Conroy Maddox - English - Collagist - Painter
 Albert Marencin - Czech - Writer - Poet - Collagist 
 Marcel Marien - Belgian - Poet - Photographer - Collagist - Film Maker and maker of objects
 Walter Mehring - German
 George Melly - English - Jazz Musician
 Henri Michaux - Belgian/French - Poet - Painter
 Nora Mitrani - Bulgarian - Poet - Female
 Jules Monnerot - French
 Max Morise - French - Painter - Actor
 Pierre Naville - French  - Sociologist
 Vitezlav Nezval - Czech
 Paul Nouge - Belgian - Poet - Photographer and philosopher

 ==O - R==
 Wolfgang Paalen - Austrian - Mexican - Painter
 Clemen Pansaers? - Belgian
 Jean Paulhan - French - literary critic and publisher
 Aldo Pellegrini - Argentinian
 Benjamin Peret - French - Poet -  Essayist
 Bjerke Petersen - Danish - Painter 
 Andre Pieyre de Mandiargues - French
 Raymond Queneau - French - Poet
 Alice Rahon- French - Poet - Painter - Female
 RegineRaufast - French - Female
 Toni del Renzio - Russian - English - Painter - art historian
 Edith Rimmington - English - Painter - Photographer - Female
 Jeanne Roques - French - Actor - Film Maker - Female

 ==S - Z==
 Georges Sadoul - French - film historian 
 Alberto Savinio - Italian -Painter - Musician
 Gerard De Sede - French
 Walter Serner - Czech
 Max Servais - Belgian - Collagist - illustrator
 Philippe Soupault - French  - Poet 
 Gertrude Stein - American - Patron
 Hugh Sykes Davies - English - Poet 
 Dorothea Tanning - American - Painter - Sculptor - Female - printmaker, set and costume designer 
 Remedios Varo - Spanish -  Painter - Female
 Pierre Unik - French - Poet - Journalist
 Nanos Valaoritis - Greek - Poet
 Albert Valentin - Belgian Film Maker - Writer
 Marianne van Hirtum - Belgian - Poet - Female
 Melchior Vischer - Czech - Theatre
 Roger Vitrac - French - playwright - poet
 Patrick Waldberg - American - Art historian
 Rosemond Wilms? French - Russian - Model - Journalist
 Ramses Younan - Egyptian- [[Painter] 
 Unica Zurn - German - Painter  - Femail?

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