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claude aveline in an exhibition opening in 1989 . 04 november 1992 paris , france minervois , claude aveline paris , france claude aveline 19 july 1901 claude aveline -lrb- signature -rrb- . jpg novel , poetry claude aveline , 1989.jpg claude aveline
 evgen avtsine writer , poet
claude aveline

claude aveline , pen name of evgen avtsine -lrb- 19 july 1901 -- 4 november 1992 -rrb- , was a writer , publisher , editor , poet and member of the french resistance .
aveline , who was born in paris , france , has authored numerous books and writings throughout his writing career .
he was known as a versatile author , writing novels , poems , screenplays , plays , articles , sayings , and more .
he was born to jewish parents who had fled the racial segregation they were subjected to in russia , moved to france in 1891 and became french citizens in 1905 .
avtsine studied at the prestigious lycée henri-iv in paris and then in a school in versailles to which his parents moved .
in 1915 , he volunteered as a medic in the first world war , then went to college in paris , but his health deteriorated and he had to stop his studies .
in 1918 - 1919 he lived near the city of cannes in southeast france , where he began writing under the pen name claude aveline .
in 1919 , his poems were published in magazines , and he was introduced to writer anatole france , becoming his protégé and close friend .
in 1920 , he returned to paris , worked as an editor of an art journal , and accepted a request to write a book about buddha , called '' `` la merveilleuse légende de siddhartha gautama bouddha '' '' .
in 1922 , aged 21 , he founded his own publishing house under the name '' `` chez claude aveline éditeur '' '' and was subsequently called `` the youngest publisher in france '' .
and even `` in the world '' .
after another health incident in 1923 , aveline stayed four years in a health clinic in font-romeu , where he met and befriended a young patient , jean vigo , eventually becoming a film director .
aveline would later act both as the executor of the filmmaker 's estate , and as the legal guardian of vigo 's daughter after his wife 's death ; in 1951 aveline founded the prix jean vigo given to young film directors .
he was president of the jury board for twenty-five years .
in 1932 he published the detective novel '' `` la double mort de frédéric belot '' '' , which was a public success , and in 1936 , the novel '' `` le prisonnier '' '' .
`` le prisonnier '' has been cited by albert camus as an influence and inspiration for his successful novel , l'Étranger .
favoring the left side of the political spectrum , he contributed to the writing of numerous communist and anti-fascist journals and publications , such as `` commune '' and `` vendredi '' .
during the nazi occupation in world war ii claude aveline joined the french resistance .
in 1952 he won the grand prix of the société des gens de lettres and the prix italia in 1955 for his creative work in radio dramas .
in 1956 , aveline asked his many artist friends to artistically illustrate , i.e. draw or paint the `` portrait de l'oiseau-qui-n ` existe-pas '' -lrb- portrait of the bird that does n't exist -rrb- , a poem he wrote in 1950 , which was subsequently translated into 55 languages .
an anthology was made out of 108 portraits by artists of various backgrounds and styles such as henri-georges adam , atlan , bertholle , bissiere , prassinos , music , singier , vieira da silva and jacques villon .
in 1963 aveline donated it to the musée national d'art moderne in paris where it was exposed .
his bust , made in 1967 by ossip zadkine , was the last sculpture created by zadkine before his death .
aveline wrote `` `` je suis le dernier zadkine '' '' -lrb- i am the last zadkine -rrb- in french newspaper le figaro , in homage to the artist .
in 1974 he began writing memoirs .
he died in 1992 in paris .
