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  2. In 1921, his close friend the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig published his biography (in English Romain Rolland: The Man and His Works). Zweig profoundly admired Rolland, whom he once described as "the moral consciousness of Europe" during the years of turmoil and War in Europe.

  3. Apr 18, 2024 · Romain Rolland was a French novelist, dramatist, and essayist, an idealist who was deeply involved with pacifism, the fight against fascism, the search for world peace, and the analysis of artistic genius. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915. At age 14, Rolland went to Paris to.

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  4. The Nobel Prize in Literature 1915 was awarded to Romain Rolland "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"

  5. Romain Rolland. The Nobel Prize in Literature 1915. Born: 29 January 1866, Clamecy, France. Died: 30 December 1944, Vézelay, France. Residence at the time of the award: France.

  6. The products of Romain Rolland's "journey within" were his autobiographical Le Voyage intérieur: Le Périple (1946); his multivolume biography of Beethoven, Beethoven: Les Grandes Epoques créatrices de l'Héroïque à l'Appassionata (1928) and Goethe et Beethoven (1930); and his three-volume study of Indian spirituality, Essay on Mysticism ...

  7. ROMAIN ROLLAND was born in 1868, Andre Gide in 1869. Both were brought to Paris by doting mothers, in their sickly adolescence, there to be educated to greatness. They achieved a cosmopolitan...

  8. May 17, 2018 · The French writer Romain Rolland (1866-1944) was the author of many works, all reflecting the conscience of a great humanist. Romain Rolland was born on Jan. 29, 1866, in Clamecy (Burgundy). His family moved to Paris in 1880, where he graduated from the École Normale Supérieure in 1889 in history.

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