François Mauriac

François Charles Mauriac (French: [fʁɑ̃swa ʃaʁl(ə) 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). He was awarded the Grand Cross of the Légion d'honneur in 1958.

Notable works: Thérèse Desqueyroux, Le Désert de l'amour, The Kiss to the Leper, Vipers' Tangle, Le mystère Frontenac, Questions of Precedence, La Fin de la nuit, The Dark Angels Awards: Nobel Prize in Literature, Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour, Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française, Prix Émile Augier, Grand Prize for the Best Novels of the Half-Century Education: École des chartes, Sainte-Marie Grand Lebrun, University of Bordeaux

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