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Loys Masson

Died in 1969

Loys Masson was born in 1915 at Rose Hill, on the island of Mauritius, into a family of French origin. Arriving in Marseille on 29 August 1939, thanks to a subscription raised by friends, he published his poems from 1940 in Esprit, then in the clandestine reviews, and after the Liberation was general secretary, then editor-in-chief of Les Lettres françaises, from which he was removed in 1948. He then devoted himself to the novel and died in Paris in 1969.

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