Romain Rolland
1866
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1944
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
movement: free-thought
country of citizenship: France
native language: French
languages spoken, written or signed: French
educated at: École Normale Supérieure, Lycée Louis-le-Grand, Lycée Saint-Louis,
occupation: writer, playwright, essayist, historian, novelist, musicologist, prosaist, biographer, musician, teacher
award received: Nobel Prize in Literature, Prix Femina, Grand prix de littérature de l'Académie française
student of: Joséphine Martin
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 a leading supporter of Joseph Stalin in France and is also noted for his correspondence with and influence on Sigmund Freud. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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