13 Facts About Jules Supervielle

Jules Supervielle was a Franco-Uruguayan poet and writer born in Montevideo.

Jules Supervielle was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times.

Jules Supervielle opposed the surrealism movement in poetry and rejected automatic writing, although he did adopt other techniques of modern poetry.

Jules Supervielle's parents both died before he was a year old, during a family visit to France, and he was raised first by his grandmother and later, on returning to Uruguay, by his aunt and uncle.

Jules Supervielle married Pilar Saavedra in Montevideo in 1906; the two had six children.

In 1910 Jules Supervielle submitted his literature thesis on The feeling of nature in Spanish-American poetry.

Jules Supervielle was conscripted during the First World War and served until 1917, at which time he returned to poetry.

Jules Supervielle published his first significant collection, Debarcaderes, in 1922, and his first novel, L'Homme de la pampa, in 1923.

Jules Supervielle was named Officier de la Legion d'honneur and received several literary prizes.

Jules Supervielle published his first mythological tales under the title Orphee in 1946.

In 1947, Jules Supervielle's Sheherazade was one of the three plays directed by Jean Vilar at the first festival d'Avignon.

Jules Supervielle published an autobiographical account entitled Boire a la source in 1951, followed by his last collection of poetry, Le Corps tragique, in 1959.

Jules Supervielle was elected Prince des poetes shortly before his death in Paris in May 1960.