Aimé Césaire, French poet, author, and politician (died 2008)

Aimé Césaire

Martinican writer, poet and politician (1913–2008)

Aimé Fernand David Césaire was a French poet, author, and politician from Martinique. 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…