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André Gide

1869 - 1951

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André Paul Guillaume Gide (French: [ɑ̃dʁe pɔl ɡijom ʒid]; 22 November 1869 – 19 February 1951) was a French writer and author whose writing spanned a wide variety of styles and topics. He was awarded the 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature. Gide's career ranged from his beginnings in the symbolist movement to criticising imperialism between the two World Wars. The author of more than 50 books, he was described in his New York Times obituary as "France's greatest contemporary man of letters" and "judged the greatest French writer of this century by the literary cognoscenti." Known for his fiction as well as his autobiographical works, Gide expressed the conflict and eventual reconciliation of the two sides of his personality (characterized by a Protestant austerity and a transgressive sexual adventurousness, respectively). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. André Gide is the 116th most popular writer (down from 106th in 2019), the 119th most popular biography from France (down from 104th in 2019) and the 26th most popular French Writer.

André Gide was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. His most famous work is the novel The Immoralist.

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Among writers, André Gide ranks 116 out of 7,302. Before him are Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Marquis de Sade, José Saramago, Václav Havel, Anatole France, and Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson. After him are Theodor Herzl, Hafez, Rainer Maria Rilke, Ismail I, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Federico García Lorca.

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Among people born in 1869, André Gide ranks 5. Before him are Mahatma Gandhi, Henri Matisse, Grigori Rasputin, and Charles Thomson Rees Wilson. After him are Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, Maud of Wales, Neville Chamberlain, Gustaf Dalén, Frederick Trump, Nadezhda Krupskaya, and Fritz Pregl. Among people deceased in 1951, André Gide ranks 3. Before him are Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim. After him are Philippe Pétain, Arnold Schoenberg, Ferdinand Porsche, Wilhelm, German Crown Prince, Arnold Sommerfeld, Abdullah I of Jordan, Otto Fritz Meyerhof, René Guénon, and Hermann Broch.

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In France

Among people born in France, André Gide ranks 119 out of 6,770. Before him are Marquis de Sade (1740), Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749), Pope Innocent VI (1282), Anatole France (1844), François Mitterrand (1916), and Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (1778). After him are Nicolas Poussin (1594), Philippe Pétain (1856), Catherine of Valois (1401), Joseph Fourier (1768), Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (1736), and Philip II of France (1165).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, André Gide ranks 26. Before him are Alexandre Dumas fils (1824), Arthur Rimbaud (1854), François Rabelais (1494), W. Somerset Maugham (1874), Marquis de Sade (1740), and Anatole France (1844). After him are Sully Prudhomme (1839), Jean de La Fontaine (1621), François Villon (1431), Jean Cocteau (1889), Paul Verlaine (1844), and Cyrano de Bergerac (1619).

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