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Romain Rolland

1866 - 1944

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Romain Rolland (French: [ʁɔmɛ̃ ʁɔlɑ̃]; 29 January 1866 – 30 December 1944) was a French dramatist, novelist, essayist, art historian and mystic who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915 "as a tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary production and to the sympathy and love of truth with which he has described different types of human beings". He was an admirer of Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore, wrote a still relevant biography of Gandhi, and is also noted for his correspondence with numerous writers and thinkers across the globe including Maxim Gorki, Rabindranath Tagore and Sigmund Freud. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Romain Rolland is the 73rd most popular writer (down from 67th in 2019), the 66th most popular biography from France (down from 55th in 2019) and the 17th most popular French Writer.

Romain Rolland is most famous for his work in the field of literature. He was a French author, poet, and playwright. His most famous work was his novel Jean-Christophe, which was published in ten volumes from 1904 to 1932.

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Among writers, Romain Rolland ranks 73 out of 7,302. Before him are Rabindranath Tagore, Jorge Luis Borges, Stefan Zweig, Thomas Mann, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Robert Frost. After him are Charles Perrault, Umberto Eco, Giacomo Casanova, Sappho, Toni Morrison, and George R. R. Martin.

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Among people born in 1866, Romain Rolland ranks 3. Before him are H. G. Wells, and Wassily Kandinsky. After him are Sun Yat-sen, Erik Satie, George Gurdjieff, Thomas Hunt Morgan, Alfred Werner, Charles Nicolle, Benedetto Croce, Jacinto Benavente, and Giovanni Agnelli. Among people deceased in 1944, Romain Rolland ranks 5. Before him are Edvard Munch, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wassily Kandinsky, and Piet Mondrian. After him are Erwin Rommel, Claus von Stauffenberg, Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom, William James Sidis, Charles Glover Barkla, Abdulmejid II, and Günther von Kluge.

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Among people born in France, Romain Rolland ranks 66 out of 6,770. Before him are Philip IV of France (1268), Napoleon II (1811), Louis XVII of France (1785), Gustave Eiffel (1832), Cardinal Richelieu (1585), and Maurice Ravel (1875). After him are Charles Perrault (1628), Hector Berlioz (1803), Auguste Rodin (1840), Georges Bizet (1838), Claude Debussy (1862), and Charles XIV John of Sweden (1763).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Romain Rolland ranks 17. Before him are Marcel Proust (1871), Denis Diderot (1713), Émile Zola (1840), Gustave Flaubert (1821), Octave Mirbeau (1848), and Stendhal (1783). After him are Charles Perrault (1628), Guy de Maupassant (1850), Alexandre Dumas fils (1824), Arthur Rimbaud (1854), François Rabelais (1494), and W. Somerset Maugham (1874).

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