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François Mauriac (October 11, 1885 – September 1, 1970) was a French author. He is acknowledged to become one of a greatest Roman Catholic writers of the 20th century.

He was innate François Charles Mauriac within Bordeaux, Gironde department, Aquitaine, France. He exposed literature at a University of Bordeaux, graduating in 1905, after which he moved to Paris to prepare for entrance in the École des Chartes. He remained at a school sole two or three months fallowing making a guide to devote himself totally to writing.

His 1st volume of verse form, Les Mains jointes (Clasped Mitts), was published inside 1909 and although it gained some attention in the literary community, it was extra than x years prior to he inherit any public prominence. His writing career was interrupted per First World War, when he served in the Balkans as a Red Cross hospital orderly.

Two or three years fallowing a war, within 1922, he published Le Baiser aux lepreux (A Kiss for the Leper) to wide eclat. Around 1933, he was elected to the Académie française. In a period of the Second World War he continued to write, publishing Le Cahier noir (The Black Notebook) under a pseudonym "Forez".

Besides his additional than Xxx novels, Mauriac published many plays which were by a Comédie Française. He was too the distinguished journalist, working as an editorial writer for the major French newspaper, Le Figaro. In the 1950s, he supported Algerian independence, condemning the apply of torture per French army. He too published the series of individual memoirs & the life story of Charles de Gaulle.

Inside 1952, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature and was awarded the Grand Cross of the ''Légion d'honneur'' in 1958. Mauriac's complete works were published inside dozen volumes between 1950 and 1956. He as well encouraged Elie Wiesel to write about his lives as a Jew during the Holocaust.

François Mauriac died around Paris in September 1, 1970 and was interred in the Cimetiere de Vemars, Val d'Oise, France.

He was the gramps of Anne Wiazemsky, a French movie maker world health organization worked sustaining & married Jean-Luc Godard.

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Mauriac, François
Biographical information; selected bibliography of Mauriac's works.

Nobel Prize in Literature, 1952
Awarded to François Mauriac "for the deep spiritual insight and the artistic intensity with which he has in his novels penetrated the drama of human life." Links to a brief biography of Mauriac and to his acceptance speech.






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