The Nobel Prize in Literature 1916
Awarded on: 1916-11-09
"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"
Romain Rolland
Born: 1866-01-29 in Clamecy, France
Gender: male
Field: French author (1866–1944)
Biography
Romain Rolland was a French dramatist, novelist, essayist, art historian and mystic who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 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".