Roger Martin du Gard
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Born | Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine | 23 March 1881
Died | 22 August 1958 Sérigny, Orne | (aged 77)
Notable work | The Thibaults |
Notable awards | Nobel Prize in Literature 1937 |
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Roger Martin du Gard (French: [dy gaʁ]; 23 March 1881 – 22 August 1958) was a French novelist, winner of the 1937 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Biography
Trained as a
He is best known for
Du Gard wrote several other novels, including Jean Barois, which was set against the historical context of the Dreyfus affair. During World War II, he resided in Nice, where he prepared a novel (Souvenirs du lieutenant-colonel de Maumort) which remained unfinished at his death. It was posthumously published in 1983. His other works include plays and a memoir of André Gide, a longtime friend.
Du Gard died in 1958 and was buried in the Cimiez Monastery Cemetery in
Partial bibliography
- Devenir ! (1908)
- Jean Barois (1913) (translated into English in 1950)
- Les Thibault (1922–1940) (translated as The Thibaults and Summer 1914)
- Confidence africaine (1930) (translated as Confidence Africaine in 1983)
- Vieille France (1933) (translated as The Postman)
- Notes sur André Gide (1951)
- Souvenirs du lieutenant-colonel de Maumort (English: Lieutenant-Colonel de Maumort) (1983)
References
- ^ Jouejati, R. (2005). The Quest for Total Peace: The Political Thought of Roger Martin Du Gard. Routledge. pp. 92–93.
- Claude Sicard, Roger Martin Du Gard. Les années d'apprentissage littéraire (1881-1910), Champion, 1976.
External links
- Works by or about Roger Martin du Gard at Internet Archive
- List of Works
- Works by Roger Martin du Gard at Faded Page (Canada)
- Roger Martin du Gard, 1937 Nobel Laureate for Literature
- Roger Martin du Gard on Nobelprize.org
- About Roger Martin du Gard
- Petri Liukkonen. "Roger Martin du Gard". Books and Writers.