François Mauriac
- Prize
- Nobel Prize in Literature — 1952for the deep spiritual insight and the artistic intensity with which he has in his novels penetrated the drama of human life
- Citizenship
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France - Languages
- French
- date of birth
- 10/11/1885
- place of birth
- Bordeaux
- date of death
- 9/1/1970
- place of death
- Paris, 16th arrondissement of Paris
- Lived
- 84 years
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- educated at
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- University of Bordeaux
- academic major: literature
- École des chartes
- Sainte-Marie Grand Lebrun
- University of Bordeaux
- member of
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- Académie Française
- end time: 9/1/1970
- start time: 6/1/1933
- Académie Française
- position held
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- seat 22 of the Académie française
- end time: 9/1/1970
- start time: 6/1/1933
- president
- end time: 1946
- start time: 1941
- president of the Société des gens de lettres
- end time: 1933
- start time: 1932
- seat 22 of the Académie française
- notable work
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- Le Fleuve de feu
- Genitrix
- L'Agneau
- The Dark Angels
- Asmodée
- Ce qui était perdu
- Destins
- La Chair et le Sang
- La Fin de la nuit
- L'Enfant chargé de chaînes
- Les Chemins de la mer
- Le Feu sur la terre
- La Robe prétexte
- Vipers' Tangle
- A Woman of Pharisees
- Les Mal-aimés
- Le Désert de l'amour
- Maltaverne
- passage du malin
- Questions of Precedence
- Un adolescent d'autrefois
- The Kiss to the Leper
- Les arbres et les pierres
- Le mystère Frontenac
- Le mystère Frontenac
- Galigai
- Thérèse Desqueyroux
- field of work
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- biography
- poetry
- journalism
- literary criticism
- prose
- creative and professional writing
- occupation
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- playwright
- biographer
- journalist
- literary critic
- novelist
- screenwriter
- poet
- writer