Louis-Ferdinand Céline Writer

Louis-Ferdinand Céline (French: [selin]) was the pen name of Dr. Louis Ferdinand Auguste Destouches (pronounced: [detuʃ]; 27 May 1894 – 1 July 1961), a French novelist, pamphleteer and physician. The name Céline was the first name of his grandmother. He developed a new style of writing that modernized French literature. He remains controversial to this day because of his virulent antisemitism, Holocaust Denial and racism.

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Alias (AKA)	Destouches Louis-Ferdinand-Auguste
Birth date	May 27, 1894
Birth name	Louis Ferdinand Auguste Destouches
Birth place	Courbevoie
Date of death	July 01, 1961
Place of death	Meudon

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influenced	Jack Kerouac Jean-Paul Sartre Kurt Vonnegut Paul Auster António Lobo Antunes Patrick Modiano William T. Vollmann Jim Morrison Charles Bukowski Henry Miller Irvine Welsh William S. Burroughs Michel Houellebecq Philip Roth Billy Childish Will Self Anthony Swofford Joseph Heller
influenced by	Gustave Flaubert Guy de Maupassant Arthur Rimbaud Ignaz Semmelweis Henri-Robert Petit Eugène Dabit Léon Daudet
notable work	Journey to the End of the Night D'un ch%C3%A2teau l'autre Mort %C3%A0 cr%C3%A9dit