André Gide - Nobel Prize in Literature — 1947
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André Gide

Prize
Nobel Prize in Literature — 1947
for his comprehensive and artistically significant writings, in which human problems and conditions have been presented with a fearless love of truth and keen psychological insight
Citizenship
France France
Languages
French
date of birth
11/22/1869
place of birth
Paris
date of death
2/19/1951
place of death
Paris
Lived
81 years
member of
  • comité de lecture des éditions Gallimard
    • end time: 1939
    • start time: 1938
  • Décades de Pontigny
employer
  • Le Figaro
notable work
  • Les Caves du Vatican
  • Strait is the Gate
  • The Counterfeiters
  • Corydon
  • L'École des femmes
  • Si le grain ne meurt
  • La Symphonie Pastorale
  • The Immoralist
  • The Fruits of the Earth
  • La Séquestrée de Poitiers
  • Retour de L'U.R.S.S.
  • Travels in the Congo
  • Le Ramier
  • L'Affaire Redureau
occupation
  • screenwriter
  • writer
  • translator
  • playwright
  • journalist
  • film producer
  • travel writer
  • novelist
  • essayist
  • prose writer
  • autobiographer
  • diarist
  • literary critic
  • poet
field of work
  • fiction
educated at
  • Lycée Henri-IV
  • École alsacienne
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