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