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André Malraux

1901 - 1976

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Georges André Malraux ( mal-ROH; French: [ʒɔʁʒ ɑ̃dʁe malʁo]; 3 November 1901 – 23 November 1976) was a French novelist, member of the French Resistance, art theorist, and minister of cultural affairs. Malraux's novel La Condition Humaine (Man's Fate) (1933) won the Prix Goncourt. He was appointed by President Charles de Gaulle as information minister (1945–46) and subsequently as France's first cultural affairs minister during de Gaulle's presidency (1959–1969). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. André Malraux is the 328th most popular writer (up from 329th in 2019), the 379th most popular biography from France (down from 376th in 2019) and the 60th most popular French Writer.

André Malraux was a French writer and philosopher. He is most famous for his novel La Condition Humaine, which was published in 1933.

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Among writers, André Malraux ranks 328 out of 7,302. Before him are Italo Calvino, Marguerite de Navarre, Nadine Gordimer, Paul Celan, Colette, and Anne Brontë. After him are William Golding, Callimachus, Jaggi Vasudev, Apollonius of Rhodes, Philip K. Dick, and Michael Ende.

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Among people born in 1901, André Malraux ranks 23. Before him are Princess Märtha of Sweden, Magda Goebbels, Paul of Greece, Ernest Lawrence, Vittorio De Sica, and Alberto Giacometti. After him are Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, Joaquín Rodrigo, Jean Dubuffet, Mohamed Naguib, J. D. Bernal, and Max Euwe. Among people deceased in 1976, André Malraux ranks 14. Before him are Luchino Visconti, Zhou Enlai, Max Ernst, Jean Gabin, Fritz Lang, and Leopold Ružička. After him are Yonatan Netanyahu, Eyvind Johnson, Trofim Lysenko, Man Ray, Prince Paul of Yugoslavia, and Henrik Dam.

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Among people born in France, André Malraux ranks 379 out of 6,770. Before him are Marguerite de Navarre (1492), Jean Renoir (1894), Jeanne d'Albret (1528), Robert I, Duke of Normandy (1010), Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès (1748), and Colette (1873). After him are Matilda of Boulogne (1103), Robert Guiscard (1016), Joseph-Ignace Guillotin (1738), Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908), Fernand Braudel (1902), and Marie Louise d’Orléans (1662).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, André Malraux ranks 60. Before him are Antonin Artaud (1896), Héloïse (1101), François Mauriac (1885), Henri Charrière (1906), Marguerite de Navarre (1492), and Colette (1873). After him are Ève Curie (1904), Maurice Leblanc (1864), Paul Valéry (1871), Pierre Beaumarchais (1732), Théophile Gautier (1811), and Jean Genet (1910).

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