Romain Rolland - Nobel Prize in Literature — 1915
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Romain Rolland

Prize
Nobel Prize in Literature — 1915
as a tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary production and to the sympathy and love of truth with which he has described different types of human beings
Citizenship
France France
Languages
French
date of birth
1/29/1866
place of birth
Clamecy
date of death
12/30/1944
place of death
Vézelay
Lived
78 years

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position held
  • member of the École française de Rome
    • end time: 1891
    • start time: 1889
employer
  • University of Paris
  • Lycée Henri-IV
  • École pratique des hautes études
  • École Normale Supérieure
occupation
  • writer
  • teacher
  • historian
  • musician
  • playwright
  • biographer
  • novelist
  • essayist
  • prose writer
  • musicologist
notable work
  • Déclaration de l’Indépendance de l’Esprit
  • Jean-Christophe
  • Péguy
  • The life of Toistoi
  • Au dessus de la mêlée
educated at
  • Lycée Louis-le-Grand
  • University of Paris
  • Lycée Saint-Louis
  • École Normale Supérieure
member of
  • Lost Generation
  • Academy of Sciences of the USSR
  • Russian Academy of Sciences
work location
  • Paris
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