Jon Mirande
Jon Mirande (11 October 1925 – 28 December 1972) was a Basque writer, poet and translator who lived in Paris. Mirande exerted a great literary influence in the 1970s and 1980s, writing in Basque literary and cultural magazines as well as Breton ones. He wrote poetry and short stories in his youth, and essays and novels in his later years.
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Jon Mirande
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- Name
- Jon Mirande
- Born
- 11 October 1925
- Died
- 28 December 1972
- Occupation
- Linguist, translator, poet and writer
- Birthplace
- Paris, France
- Education
- Lycée Arago
- Full name
- Jean Pierre Cadet Mirande.
- Nationality
- France.
- Fields
- creative and professional writing, poetry, linguistics and journalism.
- Languages
- French, Spanish and English.
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Jon Mirande (11 October 1925 – 28 December 1972) was a Basque writer, poet and translator who lived in Paris. Mirande exerted a great literary influence in the 1970s and 1980s, writing in Basque literary and cultural magazines as well as Breton ones. He wrote poetry and short stories in his youth, and essays and novels in his later years.
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Mirande was a nationalist and believed in the value of ethnicity, especially in the Basque language, but he was also pagan and laid claim to the values of paganism and of the ancient Basques. Mirande managed to incorporate Basque poetry into the modern European poetry landscape through an aestheticism of symbolist characteristics indebted to Charles Baudelaire and Edgar Allan Poe. In his poetic works, Mirande covered topics never before dealt with by Basque poetry: prostitution, alcohol, pedophilic sex and so on.
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• Name — Jon Mirande • Born — 11 October 1925 • Died — 28 December 1972 • Occupation — Linguist, translator, poet and writer • Birthplace — Paris, France • Place of death — Paris, France • Resting Place — Cimetière parisien de Thiais • Language — French Spanish English Basque Cornish Breton • Education — Lycée Arago • Pen Name — Jon Chaho
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He also worked under the name Jon Chaho. His recorded languages were French, Spanish, English and Basque.
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1925
Jon Mirande born at 13th arrondissement of Paris.
1972
Jon Mirande died at 20th arrondissement of Paris.
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13th arrondissement of Paris.
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Jon Mirande worked in creative and professional writing, poetry, linguistics, journalism and translation. He belonged to Gorsedh Kernow. Recorded as linguist, translator, poet, writer and journalist. Recorded at birth as Jean Pierre Cadet Mirande.
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