Paul Colinet

Paul Colinet (1898-1957) met the painter René Magritte in the early 1930’s and through him other members of the Belgian Surrealist Group. He participated in the Group’s activities and publications from then on, all while working his day job as a mid-level functionary in the communal administration of a Brussels suburb. After World War II, he founded several key Belgian avant-garde journals and published two books of poems and prose poems before his early death. He first appeared in English in 1946, in translations by Paul Bowles, in Charles Henri Ford’s View magazine.