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Nationality
  
France

Movies
  
Therese Desqueyroux

Role
  
Novelist

Name
  
Francois Mauriac

Signature
  


Francois Mauriac Of Suffering and Love Francois Mauriac39s Nobel Prize


Born
  
Francois Charles Mauriac11 October 1885Bordeaux, France (
1885-10-11
)

Occupation
  
Novelist, dramatist, critic, poet and journalist

Notable awards
  
Grand Prix du roman de l\'Academie francaise1926Nobel Prize in Literature1952

Died
  
September 1, 1970, Paris, France

Spouse
  
Jeanne Lafon (m. 1913–1970)

Books
  
Therese Desqueyroux, Le nœud de vipères, Le sagouin, Vipers\' Tangle, The Desert of Love

Similar People
  
Claude Mauriac, Claude Miller, Andre Gide, Anne Wiazemsky, Elie Wiesel

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François Charles Mauriac ([moʁjak]; 11 October 1885 – 1 September 1970) was a French novelist, dramatist, critic, poet, and journalist, a member of the Académie française (from 1933), and laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1952). He was awarded the Grand Cross of the Légion d'honneur in 1958.

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François Mauriac


Biography

François Mauriac Francois Mauriac Alchetron The Free Social Encyclopedia

François Charles Mauriac was born in Bordeaux, France. He studied literature at the University of Bordeaux, graduating in 1905, after which he moved to Paris to prepare for postgraduate study at the École des Chartes.

On 1 June 1933 he was elected a member of the Académie française, succeeding Eugène Brieux.

François Mauriac Francois Mauriac Alchetron The Free Social Encyclopedia

Mauriac had a bitter dispute with Albert Camus immediately following the liberation of France in World War II. At that time, Camus edited the resistance paper Combat (thereafter an overt daily, until 1947) while Mauriac wrote a column for Le Figaro. Camus said newly liberated France should purge all Nazi collaborator elements, but Mauriac warned that such disputes should be set aside in the interests of national reconciliation. Mauriac also doubted that justice would be impartial or dispassionate given the emotional turmoil of liberation.

François Mauriac Franois Mauriac 18851970

Mauriac also had a bitter public dispute with Roger Peyrefitte, who criticised the Vatican in books such as Les Clés de saint Pierre (1953). Mauriac threatened to resign from the paper he was working with at the time (L'Express) if they did not stop carrying advertisements for Peyrefitte's books. The quarrel was exacerbated by the release of the film adaptation of Peyrefitte's Les Amitiés Particulières and culminated in a virulent open letter by Peyrefitte in which he accused Mauriac of homosexual tendencies and called him a "Tartuffe".

François Mauriac Francois Mauriac1952 Nobel Prize Winner in Literature

Mauriac was opposed to French rule in Vietnam, and strongly condemned the use of torture by the French army in Algeria.

François Mauriac Francois Mauriac Alchetron The Free Social Encyclopedia

In 1952 he won the Nobel Prize in Literature "for the deep spiritual insight and the artistic intensity with which he has in his novels penetrated the drama of human life". He was awarded the Grand Cross of the Légion d'honneur in 1958. He published a series of personal memoirs and a biography of Charles de Gaulle. Mauriac's complete works were published in twelve volumes between 1950 and 1956. He encouraged Elie Wiesel to write about his experiences as a Jew during the Holocaust, and wrote the foreword to Elie Wiesel's book Night.

He was the father of writer Claude Mauriac and grandfather of Anne Wiazemsky, a French actress and author who worked with and married French director Jean-Luc Godard.

François Mauriac died in Paris on 1 September 1970 and was interred in the Cimetière de Vemars, Val d'Oise, France.

Awards and honours

  • 1926 — Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française
  • 1933 — Member of the Académie française
  • 1952 — Nobel Prize in Literature
  • 1958 — Grand Cross of the Légion d'honneur

    • Novels, novellas and short stories

  • 1913 – L'Enfant chargé de chaînes («Young Man in Chains», tr. 1961)
  • 1914 – La Robe prétexte («The Stuff of Youth», tr. 1960)
  • 1920 – La Chair et le Sang («Flesh and Blood», tr. 1954)
  • 1921 – Préséances («Questions of Precedence», tr. 1958)
  • 1922 – Le Baiser au lépreux («The Kiss to the Leper», tr. 1923 / «A Kiss to the Leper», tr. 1950)
  • 1923 – Le Fleuve de feu («The River of Fire», tr. 1954)
  • 1923 – Génitrix («Genetrix», tr. 1950)
  • 1923 – Le Mal («The Enemy», tr. 1949)
  • 1925 – Le Désert de l'amour («The Desert of Love», tr. 1949) (Awarded the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française, 1926.)
  • 1927 – Thérèse Desqueyroux («Thérèse», tr. 1928 / «Thérèse Desqueyroux», tr. 1947 and 2005)
  • 1928 – Destins («Destinies», tr. 1929 / «Lines of Life», tr. 1957)
  • 1929 – Trois Récits A volume of three stories: Coups de couteau, 1926; Un homme de lettres, 1926; Le Démon de la connaissance, 1928
  • 1930 – Ce qui était perdu («Suspicion», tr. 1931 / «That Which Was Lost», tr. 1951)
  • 1932 – Le Nœud de vipères («Vipers' Tangle», tr. 1933 / «The Knot of Vipers», tr. 1951)
  • 1933 – Le Mystère Frontenac («The Frontenac Mystery», tr. 1951 / «The Frontenacs», tr. 1961)
  • 1935 – La Fin de la nuit («The End of the Night», tr. 1947)
  • 1936 – Les Anges noirs («The Dark Angels», tr. 1951 / «The Mask of Innocence», tr. 1953)
  • 1938 – Plongées A volume of five stories: Thérèse chez le docteur, 1933 («Thérèse and the Doctor», tr. 1947); Thérèse à l'hôtel, 1933 («Thérèse at the Hotel», tr. 1947); Le Rang; Insomnie; Conte de Noël.
  • 1939 – Les Chemins de la mer («The Unknown Sea», tr. 1948)
  • 1941 – La Pharisienne («A Woman of Pharisees», tr. 1946)
  • 1951 – Le Sagouin («The Weakling», tr. 1952 / «The Little Misery», tr. 1952) (A novella)
  • 1952 – Galigaï («The Loved and the Unloved», tr. 1953)
  • 1954 – L'Agneau («The Lamb», tr. 1955)
  • 1969 – Un adolescent d'autrefois («Maltaverne», tr. 1970)
  • 1972 – Maltaverne (the unfinished sequel to the previous novel; posthumously published)

    • Plays

  • 1938 – Asmodée («Asmodée; or, The Intruder», tr. 1939 / «Asmodée: A Drama in Three Acts», tr. 1957)
  • 1945 – Les Mal Aimés
  • 1948 – Passage du malin
  • 1951 – Le Feu sur terre

    • Poetry

  • 1909 – Les Mains jointes
  • 1911 – L'Adieu à l'Adolescence
  • 1925 – Orages
  • 1940 – Le Sang d'Atys

    • Memoirs

  • 1931 – Holy Thursday: an Intimate Remembrance
  • 1960 – Memoires Interieurs
  • 1962 – Ce Que Je Crois
  • 1964 – Soiree Tu Danse

    • Biography

  • 1937 – Life of Jesus

    • Essays and criticism

  • 1961 – Second Thoughts: Reflections on literature and on Life (tr. by Adrienne Foulke). Darwen Finlayson
  • François Mauriac on Race, War, Politics, and Religion: The Great War Through the 1960s. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press. 2016. ISBN 978-0-8132-2789-4.  Edited and translated by Nathan Bracher.

    • Quotes

    No love - no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever
    To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others
    Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses

    References

    François Mauriac Wikipedia
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