biography
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Gide, André (Paul Guillaume)
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pronunciation:
[zheed]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1869–1951)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Paris, France. As a young man he symbolized his generation's rebellion against conventional values. He was author of over 50 volumes of fiction, poetry, plays, criticism, biography, belles lettres, and translations. Among his best-known works are Les Nourritures terrestres (1897, Fruits of the Earth), L'Immoraliste (1902), a short story in which the destruction of others is legitimized, and Les Faux Monnayeurs (1926, The Counterfeiters), his translations of Oedipus and Hamlet, and his Journal. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1947. |
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