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- François Mauriac (born Oct. 11, 1885, Bordeaux, France—died Sept. 1, 1970, Paris) was a novelist, essayist, poet, playwright, journalist, and winner in 1952 of the Nobel Prize for Literature. He belonged to the lineage of French Catholic writers who examined the ugly realities of modern life in the light of eternity.
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François Mauriac, né le 11 octobre 1885 à Bordeaux et mort le 1 er septembre 1970 à Paris, est un écrivain français. Lauréat du Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française en 1926, il est élu membre de l' Académie française au fauteuil n o 22 en 1933.
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François Mauriac was a novelist, essayist, poet, playwright, journalist, and winner in 1952 of the Nobel Prize for Literature. He belonged to the lineage of French Catholic writers who examined the ugly realities of modern life in the light of eternity. His major novels are sombre, austere.
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François Charles Mauriac (French pronunciation: [fʁɑ̃swa ʃaʁl moʁjak], Occitan: Francés Carles Mauriac; 11 October 1885 – 1 September 1970) was a French novelist, dramatist, critic, poet, and journalist, a member of the Académie française (from 1933), and laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1952).
Biographical. François Mauriac (1885-1970) was born in Bordeaux. His father, a banker, died when he was eighteen months old, leaving his mother with five children, of which he was the youngest. François grew up in a closely sheltered world, first under the protection of his mother, later in a school run by the Marianites.
Biographie. Né à Bordeaux, le 11 octobre 1885. Issu d’une famille bourgeoise, catholique et conservatrice, François Mauriac devait rester sa vie durant profondément attaché à ses racines bordelaises, ainsi qu’il apparaîtra dans la plupart de ses romans. Après des études secondaires dans sa ville natale, il prépara à la faculté ...
Grande figure de la littérature française du xx e siècle, François Mauriac (1885-1970) ne fut pas seulement un romancier catholique explorant les abîmes de l'âme. Il fut aussi un grand polémiste, un maître du style, que ce soit dans les Mémoires (1959-1965) ou dans le célèbre Bloc-Notes...
May 18, 2018 · The French author François Mauriac (1885-1970), a fervent Catholic, is best known for his novels, usually set in Bordeaux or the Landes district of southwestern France, with their central themes of faith, sin, and divine grace.
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