Guillaume Apollinaire

Who was Guillaume Apollinaire?

Guillaume Apollinaire was an Italian-born French poet, playwright, short story writer, novelist, and art critic born in Rome, in Italy, to a Polish mother.

Among the foremost poets of the early 20th century, he is credited with coining the word Surrealism and writing one of the earliest works described as surrealist, the play The Breasts of Tiresias. Two years after being wounded in World War I, he died in the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 at age 38.