biography
pronunciation:
[rolã]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1866–1944)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Clamecy, C France. He studied in Paris and Rome, and in 1910 became professor of the history of music at the Sorbonne. He resigned in 1912 to devote himself to writing, published several biographies and a 10-volume novel, Jean-Christophe (1904–12), and in 1915 was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He lived in Switzerland until 1938, completing another novel cycle, several plays, and many pieces of music criticism. On his return to France he became a mouthpiece of the opposition to Fascism and the Nazis, and his later works contain much political and social writing. |
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