Frantz Fanon Writer

Frantz Omar Fanon (20 July 1925 – 6 December 1961) was a Martinique-born Afro-French psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutionary, and writer whose works are influential in the fields of post-colonial studies, critical theory, and post-Marxism. As an intellectual, Fanon was a political radical, and an existentialist humanist concerned with the psychopathology of colonization, and the human, social, and cultural consequences of decolonization.In the course of his work as a physician and psychiatrist, Fanon supported the Algerian War of Independence from France, and was a member of the Algerian National Liberation Front. For more than four decades, the life and works of Frantz Fanon have inspired movements in Palestine, Sri Lanka, the U.S. and South Africa.

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Birth date	July 20, 1925
Birth place	Martinique , Fort-de-France
Date of death	December 06, 1961
Place of death	Bethesda Maryland

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influenced	Malcolm X Steve Biko Bobby Seale Ali Shariati Édouard Glissant Lewis Gordon Che Guevara Huey P. Newton Paulo Freire Achille Mbembe Edward Said
influenced by	Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Jean-Paul Sartre Karl Marx Sigmund Freud Aimé Césaire Carl Jung Alfred Adler Négritude Chester Himes György Lukács