The Nobel Prize in Literature 1947
Awarded on: 1947-11-13
"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"
André Paul Guillaume Gide
Born: 1869-11-22 in Paris, France
Gender: male
Field: French author and Nobel laureate (1869–1951)
Biography
André Paul Guillaume Gide was a French writer and author whose writing spanned a wide variety of styles and topics. He was awarded the 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature. Gide's career ranged from his beginnings in the symbolist movement to criticising imperialism between the two World Wars. The author of more than 50 books, he was described in his New York Times obituary as "France's greatest contemporary man of letters" and "judged the greatest French writer of this century by the literary cognoscenti."