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Also Known As	André-Paul-Guillaume Gide
Born	November 22, 1869 • Paris • France
Died	February 19, 1951 (aged 81) • Paris • France
Awards And Honors	Nobel Prize (1947)
Notable Works	“Corydon” • “Fruits of the Earth” • “If It Die…” • “Journal” • “Marshlands” • “Narcissus” • “Prometheus Misbound” • “Return from the U.S.S.R.” • “Strait Is the Gate” • “The Counterfeiters” • “The Immoralist” • “The Notebooks of André Walter” • “The Pastoral Symphony” • “Travels in the Congo” • “Urien’s Voyage”
Movement / Style	Symbolism