Eugène Dabit

Eugene Dabit (21 September 1898 in Mers-les-Bains 21 August 1936 in Sevastopol) was a French socialist writer.

He was part of the group "proletarian literature" and had a great success for his short story collection Hôtel du Nord which won the du Prix du roman populiste and was filmed in 1938 by Marcel Carné. He maintained an important correspondence with Roger Martin du Gard.

Dabit was also an amateur artist.

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