biography
pronunciation:
[mohriak]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1885–1970)
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| biography:
| Novelist, born in Bordeaux, SW France. He studied at Bordeaux, was of strict Roman Catholic parentage, and became regarded as the leading novelist of that faith. He started as a poet, publishing his first volume of verse in 1909. His novels explore temptation, sin, and redemption, and include Le Baiser au lépreux (1922, The Kiss to the Leper) and Le Noeud de vipères (1932, Viper's Tangle). He was awarded the 1952 Nobel Prize for Literature. |
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