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Also Known As Marie-René-Auguste-Aléxis Saint-Léger
Born May 31, 1887 • Guadeloupe
Died September 20, 1975 (aged 88) • France
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1960)
Notable Works “Éloges, and Other Poems”

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French write and Nobel laureate André Gide
André Gide
French writer
François Mauriac
François Mauriac
French author
Sully Prudhomme.
Sully Prudhomme
French poet
Albert Camus
Albert Camus
French author
Frédéric Mistral, etching, 1864
Frédéric Mistral
French poet
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Romain Rolland
French writer
Patrick Modiano
Patrick Modiano
French writer
Anatole France
Anatole France
French writer
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Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
French author
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Roger Martin du Gard
French author
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Claude Simon
French author
Chapelain, engraving by Robert Nanteuil, 1655
Jean Chapelain
French author
T.S. Eliot stands at a chalkboard, writing a diagram with letters and Greek symbols representing characters for a play, in his office at the Institute for Advanced Study.
T.S. Eliot
American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic
William Faulkner
William Faulkner
American author
Samuel Beckett, 1965
Samuel Beckett
Irish author
William Butler Yeats seated, wearing round glasses and a textured jacket, looking directly at the camera in a black and white portrait from around 1923.
William Butler Yeats
Irish author and poet
Pablo Neruda
Pablo Neruda
Chilean poet
Luigi Pirandello
Luigi Pirandello
Italian author
Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
British writer
Poet Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney
Irish poet

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