Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Writing

Born: 1894-05-27 · Courbevoie, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France

Louis Ferdinand Auguste Destouches (27 May 1894 – 1 July 1961), better known by the pen name Louis-Ferdinand Céline, was a French novelist, polemicist, and physician. His first novel Journey to the End of the Night (1932) won the Prix Renaudot but divided critics due to the author's pessimistic depi…