Known For
Writing
Gender
Male
Birthday
January 15, 1899
Died
October 14, 1980
Age
81
Place of Birth
Saint-Brieuc, Côtes-d'Armor, France
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Louis Guilloux
Writing
Biography
Louis Guilloux (15 January 1899 – 14 October 1980) was a Breton writer born in Saint-Brieuc, Brittany, where he lived throughout his life. He is known for his Social Realist novels describing working class life and political struggles in the mid-twentieth century. His best-known book is Le Sang noir (Blood Dark), which has been described as a "prefiguration of Sartre's La Nausée." Guilloux's father was a shoemaker and socialist activist, a background that Guilloux describes in his first book La Maison du Peuple (The House of the People), which centres on the struggles of a shoemaker called Qu…
