Anatole France - Nobel Prize in Literature — 1921
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Anatole France

Prize
Nobel Prize in Literature — 1921
in recognition of his brilliant literary achievements, characterized as they are by a nobility of style, a profound human sympathy, grace, and a true Gallic temperament
Citizenship
France France
Languages
French
date of birth
4/16/1844
place of birth
Paris
date of death
10/12/1924
place of death
manoir de la Béchellerie
Lived
80 years

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member of
  • Académie Française
    • start time: 1/23/1896
  • Human Rights League
  • PEN Club français
position held
  • seat 38 of the Académie française
    • start time: 1/23/1896
    • end time: 10/12/1924
  • president of the French PEN Club
    • end time: 1924
    • start time: 1921
notable work
  • The Gods Are Athirst
  • The Red Lily
  • Thaïs
occupation
  • librarian
  • biographer
  • literary critic
  • novelist
  • critic
  • prose writer
  • science fiction writer
  • writer
  • poet
  • journalist
work location
  • Paris
educated at
  • Collège Stanislas de Paris
field of work
  • journalism
  • literary criticism
  • poetry
  • prose
  • creative and professional writing
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