Gisèle Prassinos

Biography:

Gisèle Prassinos is a French writer of Greek heritage associated with the surrealist movement. She was born in Istanbul Turkey and emigrated to France with her family at the age of two where they lived initially in Nanterre. Her brother Mario Prassinos is a noted artist and designer. Her writing was discovered by André Breton in 1934 when she was just fourteen and published in the French surrealist magazine Minotaure and the Belgian periodical Documents 34.