Prévert, Jacques (1900-1977)

French poet and film screenwriter. His free verse, with a strong vein of humour and fantasy, was first collected in Paroles/Words 1946. Later volumes of verse are Histoires 1946, Spectacle 1951, and La Pluie et le beau temps/Good Weather and Bad 1955. He provided screenplays for the films Le Quai des brumes, Le Jour se lève, Les Enfants du paradis, Les Portes de la nuit, and La Bergère et le ramoneur.

He was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine. He first made his name before World War II as a writer of film scripts and during the war began writing poetry.