François Charles Mauriac (French: [fʁɑ̃swa ʃaʁl moʁjak]; Occitan: Francés Carles Mauriac; 11 October 1885 – 1 September 1970) was a French novelist, dramatist...
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following the Russian Revolution. Her mother Claire Mauriac was the daughter of François Mauriac, a winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Wiazemsky...
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on the 1927 novel of the same name by François Mauriac. Written by Franju, François Mauriac and Claude Mauriac, it stars Emmanuelle Riva and Philippe...
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velt hot geshvign ("And the World Remained Silent"). The novelist François Mauriac helped him find a French publisher. Les Éditions de Minuit published...
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contre-enquête won the 2015 Goncourt first novel prize, the 2014 Prix François-Mauriac and the 2014 Prix des cinq continents de la Francophonie. It was shortlisted...
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of the evolving society she lived in. The Years won the 2008 Prix François-Mauriac de la région Aquitaine [fr], the 2008 Marguerite Duras Prize, the 2008...
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Hemingway, Beckett, Sartre, Solzhenitsyn, Gide, García Márquez, Faulkner, Mauriac, Mann, Pirandello, Böll, Lagerlöf, Le Clézio, and Perse List of recipients...
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(French pronunciation: [teʁɛz dɛskɛʁu]) is a 1927 French novel by François Mauriac. The novel is set in the Landes, a sparsely populated area of south-west...
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romans durs (hard novels). Among his literary admirers were Max Jacob, François Mauriac and André Gide. Gide wrote, “I consider Simenon a great novelist, perhaps...
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Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the French Catholic writer François Mauriac (1885–1970) "for the deep spiritual insight and the artistic intensity...
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Gironde département of France Claude Mauriac (1914–1996), French writer and journalist, son of François François Mauriac (1885–1970), French writer, Nobel...
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Claude Mauriac (25 April 1914 – 22 March 1996) was a French author and journalist, born in Paris as the eldest son of author François Mauriac. Mauriac was...
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Purcell Archer Martin; Richard Laurence Millington Synge Selman Waksman François Mauriac Albert Schweitzer 1953 Frits Zernike Hermann Staudinger Hans Adolf...
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two of them. — Giulio Andreotti, Prime Minister of Italy, quoting François Mauriac Ireland's Taoiseach, Charles Haughey, supported German reunification...
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authors were first-time nominated namely André Gide (awarded in 1947), François Mauriac (awarded in 1952), Winston Churchill (awarded in 1953), Boris Pasternak...
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Éric Ollivier (section Secretary to François Mauriac)
François Villiers, with Jean-Pierre Aumont Avant de partir, Éditions Grasset, p. 13 Avant de partir, Grasset, p.121. Jean-Luc Barré, François Mauriac...
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author to become a recipient of the prize after Catholic novelist François Mauriac in 1952, and the fourth philosopher after British analytic philosopher...
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literary community was dominated by figures such as Colette, André Gide, François Mauriac, André Malraux, Albert Camus, and, after World War II, by Simone de...
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Joris-Karl Huysmans, Charles Péguy, Paul Claudel, Georges Bernanos and François Mauriac, as well as the philosophers Jacques Maritain and Gabriel Marcel. The...
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Henri Bergson 1937 – Roger Martin du Gard 1947 – André Gide 1952 – François Mauriac 1957 – Albert Camus 1960 – Saint-John Perse 1964 – Jean-Paul Sartre...
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Pergaud (1882–1915) Rose Combe (1883–1932) Georges Duhamel (1884–1966) François Mauriac (1885–1970), Nobel Prize in Literature, 1952 Jules Romains (1885–1972)...
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techniques, took different liberties, and set themselves different tasks. François Mauriac, novelist A satirist uses wit to ridicule the shortcomings of society...
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"impoverished aristocrats". Saint-Exupéry had three sisters and a younger brother, François, who died at age 15 of rheumatic fever contracted while both were attending...
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Non-profit organization positions Preceded by François Mauriac Wartime International Presidential Committee 1941–47 PEN International 1941–1947 Succeeded by...
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Alphonse de Châteaubriant 1924 Émile Henriot 1925 François Duhourcau 1926–1950 1926 François Mauriac 1927 Joseph Kessel 1928 Jean Balde [fr] 1929 André...
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of the church father Justin Martyr Flesh and Blood, a 1920 work by François Mauriac Flesh and Blood (Kellerman novel), a 2001 novel by American author...
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poetry collected by Paul Éluard, Le cahier noir (The Black Notebook) by François Mauriac, and Le musée Grévin (The Grévin Museum) by Louis Aragon. A small group...
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publishers, was published by Gallimard in 2002; the book earned him the François-Mauriac literary prize, awarded by the Académie Française. David Foenkinos...
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the period, meeting figures such as Demetrios Galanis, Max Jacob, François Mauriac, Guy de Pourtalès, André Salmon, Jean Cocteau, Raymond Radiguet, Florent...
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French economist Frédéric Bastiat. The Nobel Prize–winning novelist François Mauriac set his novels in the Landes. The Landes is part of the current region...
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