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Yvan Goll
1891Mar, 29

Yvan Goll

Yvan Goll, French-German poet and playwright (d. 1950)
Yvan Goll (also: Iwan Goll, Ivan Goll; born Isaac Lang; 29 March 1891 – 27 February 1950) was a French-German poet who was bilingual and wrote in both French and German. He had close ties to both German expressionism and to French surrealism.

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