Author: Tristan Tzara
Alternate names: Tristan Ruia
Born: 1896
Died: 1963
Bio: Tristan Tzara was a Romanian Jewish avant-garde poet. In the early 1910s, he was an editor of the Simbolul ("The Symbol") magazine with Ion Vinea. In 1915 he left Romania and went to Zurich, Switzerland. Here, at Cabaret Voltaire, he was one of the founders of the Dada movement.