André Malraux

Georges André Malraux ( mal-ROH; French: [ʒɔʁʒ ɑ̃dʁe malʁo] ; 3 November 1901 – 23 November 1976) was a French novelist, member of the French Resistance, art theorist, and minister of cultural affairs.

Malraux's 1933 novel La Condition Humaine (Man's Fate) is set during the 1927 Shanghai uprising and won the Prix Goncourt; L'Espoir (Man's Hope), written in 1937, arose from his experiences during the Spanish Civil War. After the Second World War he abandoned fiction and wrote several works on art history, collected as La Psychologie de l'Art (The Voices of Silence, 1953). He was appointed by Charles de Gaulle as information minister (1945–46) and subsequently as France's first cultural affairs minister during de Gaulle's presidency (1959–1969).

Notable works: Man's Fate Awards: Officer of the Legion of Honour, Croix de guerre 1939–1945, Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding, Companion of the Liberation, Distinguished Service Order, Commanders Grand Cross of the Order of the Polar Star, Great Cross with Star and Sash of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, Prix Interallié, Grand Cordon of the National Order of the Cedar‎, Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown Education: Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales, Lycée Turgot, Lycée Condorcet

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