Antoine de Saint-Exupery

At 44 years old, Antoine de Saint-Exupery has this physical status:

Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, comte de Saint-Exupéry, also known as de Saint-Exupéry, was a French writer, poet, aristocrat, researcher, and pioneering aviator.

He has been nominated for many of France's top literary awards, as well as the United States National Book Award.

He is best known for his bookla The Little Prince (Le Petit Prince) and his lyrical aviation books, including Wind, Sand and Stars and Night Flight, which were released in 2009. Before World War II, Saint-Exupéry was a successful commercial pilot, operating airmail routes in Europe, Africa, and South America.

He joined the French Air Force (Armée de l'Air), flying reconnaissance missions until France's armistice with Germany in 1940.

After being demobilized from the French Air Force, he travelled to the United States to help convince the government to engage in the war against Nazi Germany.

Following a 27-month absence in North America, during which he wrote three of his most influential books, he joined the Free French Air Force in North Africa, but he was well past the maximum age for such pilots and in declining health.

In July 1944, he disappeared and is thought to have died while on a reconnaissance mission across the Mediterranean. Saint-Exupéry had made French fame as an aviator prior to the war.

His literary works, including the Little Prince, were translated into 300 languages and dialects, have posthumously elevated his stature to national hero status in France.

With international translations of his other works, he gained even greater success.

Terre des hommes, a 1939 philosophical book published in English, became the name of a worldwide humanitarian group; it was also used to develop the central theme of the country's fair of the 20th century, Expo 67 in Montreal, Quebec.

Lyon, Saint-Exupéry's birthplace, has also named its main airport after him.

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Writing career

L'Aviateur (The Aviator), Saint-Exupéry's first novella, was published in 1926 in Le Navire d'Argent, a short-lived literary journal. (The Silver Ship) is Saint-Exupéry's first novella (The Aviator). Courrier Sud (Southern Mail), his first book, was published in 1929; his career as an aviator and journalist was about to begin. Saint-Exupéry flew the Casablanca-Dakar route the same year as well.

Vol de nuit (Night Flight), a 1931 publication, established Saint-Exupéry as a rising star in the literary world. It was the first of his major works to gain wide recognition and then the Prix Femina was coveted. The novel based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, reencountering his experience as a mail pilot and director of the Aeroposta Argentina airline. Consuelo Suncin (née Suncin), a once-widow Salvadoran writer and artist who had a bohemian spirit and a "viper's tongue) married Grasse in 2005.

Saint-Exupéry, who had been enchanted by the diminutive woman, would leave and then return to her many times—he was both his muse and, in the long run, the source of much of his hysteria. It was a turbulent union, with Saint-Exupéry regularly travelling and indulging in a variety of problems, most notable with Frenchwoman Hélène de Vogüé (1908–2003), who was known as "Nelly" and referred to as "Madame de B." In Saint-Exupéry biographies, a saint-Exupéry britain. After his death, Vogüé became Saint-Exupéry's literary executrix, and she also wrote her own Saint-Exupéry biographie under the pseudonym Pierre Chevrier.

Saint-Exupéry continued to write until 1943, when he left the United States with American troops deployed in North Africa in the Second World War.

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