Anatole France

1844 - 1924

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Pseudonym: Anatole France, Anatolis Fransas

Movement: freethought

Country of citizenship: France

Native language: French

Languages spoken, written or signed: French

Educated at: Collège Stanislas de Paris

Occupation: writer, poet, novelist, librarian, literary critic, science fiction writer, prose writer, biographer, critic, journalist

Award received: Nobel Prize in Literature, Montyon Prize, Vitet Prize, Officer of the Legion of Honour, Knight of the Legion of Honour, Grand Prize for the Best Novels of the Half-Century

Position held: président ou présidente du PEN Club français, seat 38 of the Académie française

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Anatole France (French: [anatɔl fʁɑ̃s]; born François-Anatole Thibault [frɑ̃swa anatɔl tibo]; 16 April 1844 – 12 October 1924) was a French poet, journalist, and novelist with several best-sellers. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters. He was a member of the Académie Française, and won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Literature "in recognition of his brilliant literary achievements, characterized as they are by a nobility of style, a profound human sympathy, grace, and a true Gallic temperament". France is also widely believed to be the model for narrator Marcel's literary idol Bergotte in Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time. Source: Wikipedia (en)