In 1925, his family moved to
Brussels and he studied at the
Université libre de Bruxelles, then at the
Sorbonne. He fought in the
Belgian army in 1940, then in the
French army. In 1942, he fled with his family to
Manhattan, where he helped edit the Free French magazine
Voix de France. He enlisted in the
U.S. Army during
World War II, and received
U.S. citizenship. He met his wife, Norma Caplan, in
Berlin. He was Special Adviser to the mission on behalf of the
Allied Control Council Quadripartite Council of Berlin from 1945 to 1951. In 1947, with
Alexander Koval and
Édouard Roditi founded the German-language literary review,
Das Lot ("The Sounding Line"), six numbers from October 1947 until June, 1952, with publisher Karl Heinz Henssel in Berlin. In 1957, Galerie Parnass (
Wuppertal) published the
Artist's book Micro Macro with poems by Alain Bosquet and
lithographs from
Heinz Trökes in 50 copies. In 1958, he taught
French literature at
Brandeis University, then
American literature at the
University of Lyon from 1959 to 1960. He worked as a freelance critic for
Combat,
Le Monde, and
Le Figaro. He became a
French citizen in 1980. He headed the jury of the Max Jacob Prize, the
Académie Mallarmé and was a member of the
Royal Academy of Belgium. ==Awards==