André Gide
(1869-1951)
French author and Nobel laureate
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André Paul Guillaume Gide (22 November 1869 – 19 February 1951) was a French writer and author whose writing spanned a wide variety of styles and topics. He was awarded the 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature. Gide's career ranged from his beginnings in the symbolist movement to criticising imperialism between the two World Wars. The author of more than 50 books, he was described in his New York Times obituary as "France's greatest contemporary man of letters" and "judged the greatest French writer of this century by the literary cognoscenti."
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Paul Guillaume André Gide 22 November 1869 Paris, France
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19 February 1951 (aged 81) Paris, France
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| Zodiac | Scorpio |
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