Rouben Melik (; 14 November 1921 – 21 May 2007) was a French-Armenian poet and a member of the
French Resistance
The French Resistance (french: La Résistance) was a collection of organisations that fought the German occupation of France during World War II, Nazi occupation of France and the Collaborationism, collaborationist Vichy France, Vichy régim ...
. Officer of
Ordre des Arts et Lettres
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(1963).
Rouben Melik studied in
Sorbonne
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with
Gaston Bachelard
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, before his entrance to the literature under the aegis of the Resistance. One year after the publication in 1941 of ''Variations of triptyches'', he joined the
French Communist Party
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where he became a friend of
Paul Eluard, alongside the
Manouchian group and took part in the liberation of
Paris
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. After the war, he founded "Armenian Youth of France" organization.
Winner of Apollinaire prize in 1948.
IMEC archive
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1921 births
2007 deaths
French people of Armenian descent
University of Paris alumni
French male poets
20th-century French poets
Officiers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
20th-century French male writers
Prix Guillaume Apollinaire winners
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