Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, vicomte de Saint-Exupéry (29 June 1900 – c. 31 July 1944), known simply as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (UK: , US: ; French: [ɑ̃twan də sɛ̃t‿ɛɡzypeʁi] ), was a French writer, poet, journalist and aviator. He is best known as the author of The Little Prince. Born in Lyon to an aristocratic family, Saint-Exupéry learned to fly during his military service in 1921. In 1926 he joined the airline Latécoère, later Aéropostale, flying mail between Toulouse and Dakar and serving as station manager at Cape Juby in the Sahara. In 1929 he moved to Argentina to run the company's South American subsidiary, Aeroposta Argentina. His experiences as a pilot shaped his early fiction: the short story The Aviator (1926) and the novels Southern Mail (1929) and Night Flight (1931), which won the Prix Femina. During the 1930s he also worked as a reporter, covering the Soviet Union in 1935 and the Spanish Civil War in 1936 and 1937, and survived a crash in the Libyan Desert during...

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