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Also Known As Claude Eugène Henri Simon
Born October 10, 1913 • Antananarivo • Madagascar
Died July 6, 2005 (aged 91) • Paris • France
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize
Notable Works “The Wind”
French write and Nobel laureate André Gide
André Gide
French writer
Albert Camus
Albert Camus
French author
Rolland
Romain Rolland
French writer
François Mauriac
François Mauriac
French author
Patrick Modiano
Patrick Modiano
French writer
Anatole France
Anatole France
French writer
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
French author
Roger Martin du Gard
French author
Alain Robbe-Grillet
French author
Samuel Beckett, 1965
Samuel Beckett
Irish author
Annie Ernaux
Annie Ernaux
French author
Gao Xingjian
Gao Xingjian
Chinese author and critic
Saint-John Perse
Saint-John Perse
French poet
Sully Prudhomme.
Sully Prudhomme
French poet
Jean Cocteau, 1939.
Jean Cocteau
French poet and artist
Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvoir
French writer
Jean Genet
Jean Genet
French writer
Jean Cayrol
French author
Nathalie Sarraute
French author
Michel Butor
French author