André Malraux

French novelist, art theorist, and statesman (1901-1976) · France · Writers · Died at 75

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He wrote novels about revolution, then lived one - flying for the Spanish Republic, running guns, walking into the Resistance. Later he traded the barricades for a ministry and spent a decade remaking France's cultural landscape under de Gaulle.

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1976Died23 November 1976“Our civilization … is not devaluing its awareness of the unknowable; nor is it deifying it. It is the first civilization that has severed it from religion and superstition.”In their wordsPicasso's Mask (1976)Read the whole statement

Alfonso Reyes International PrizeAward1975“On this earth of ours where everything is subject to the passing of time, one thing only is both subject to time and yet victorious over it: the work of art.”In their wordsAndré Malraux, TV program: Promenades imaginaires dans Florence, 1975.Read the whole statement

1972Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International UnderstandingAward1950Grand Prize for the Best Novels of the Half-CenturyAward1945Louis Delluc PrizeAward1933“No one can endure his own solitude.”In their wordsAuthor's commentary, serialized version of La condition humaine in the Nouvelle revue française (1933)Read the whole statement

“If a man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity?”In their wordsLa condition humaine [Man's Fate] (1933)Read the whole statement

“Why do you fight?" ... He kept his wife, his kid, from dying. That was nothing. Less than nothing.”In their wordsLa condition humaine [Man's Fate] (1933)Read the whole statement

“The sons of torture victims make good terrorists.”In their wordsLa condition humaine [Man's Fate] (1933)Read the whole statement

Prix GoncourtAward1930Prix InteralliéAward1901Born3 November 1901

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Dinner in Honor of Andre Malraux

JFK, Jackie, André Malraux, Lyndon B. Johnson, unveiling Mona Lisa, January 8, 1963

JFK, Marie-Madeleine Lioux, André Malraux, Jackie, L.B. Johnson, unveiling Mona Lisa at National Gallery of Art

André Malraux (left) and Vittorino Veronese at UNESCO, salvage of Nubia monuments, International campaign

André Malraux, prix Goncourt - btv1b9026704s

Angela Craciun, Présidente de la Fondation André Malraux avec Irina Antonova et Antoine Gallimard

Días de desprecio. Versión española de Le Temps du mépris de André Malraux

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André Malraux

10 statements, newest first

Our civilization … is not devaluing its awareness of the unknowable; nor is it deifying it. It is the first civilization that has severed it from religion and superstition.
1976, Picasso's Mask (1976), Own words
On this earth of ours where everything is subject to the passing of time, one thing only is both subject to time and yet victorious over it: the work of art.
1975, André Malraux, TV program: Promenades imaginaires dans Florence, 1975., Own words
What is man? A miserable little pile of secrets.
1967, Antimémoires, preface (1967), Own words

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Awards

Alfonso Reyes International Prize1976

Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding1972

Grand Prize for the Best Novels of the Half-Century1950

Louis Delluc Prize1945

Prix Goncourt1933

Prix Interallié1930

Officer of the Legion of Honour

Croix de guerre 1939-1945

Companion of the Liberation

Distinguished Service Order

Commanders Grand Cross of the Order of the Polar Star

Great Cross with Star and Sash of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

Grand Cordon of the National Order of the Cedar

Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown

Grand Cross of the Order of the Oak Crown

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Olav

Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic

Grand Cross of the Military Order of Saint James of the Sword

Grand Cross of the Order of the Dannebrog

Grand Cross of the Order of Wissam Alaouite

Grand Cross of the Order of George I

Order of the Rising Sun, 1st class

Grand Officer of the Order of the Southern Cross

Order of the Equatorial Star

Order of the Republic

Knight First Class of the Order of the Lion of Finland

Grand Cross of the Order of the Lion of Finland

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André Malraux published La Condition Humaine in 1933, a novel set during the 1927 Shanghai uprising that won the Prix Goncourt. The Spanish Civil War pulled him from the page into the cockpit; L'Espoir came from that fight in 1937. He joined the French Resistance during the Second World War, survived, and emerged into politics. De Gaulle named him information minister in 1945, then brought him back as France's first cultural affairs minister from 1959 to 1969. After the war he left fiction behind and turned to art history, gathering his thinking in La Psychologie de l'Art, published in 1953 as The Voices of Silence. He died on 23 November 1976.

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In common with André

Georges FranjuAlso in Amiens, Ville Ouverte (1967)

Édouard Corniglion-MolinierAlso in Days of Hope (1940)Denis MarionAlso in Days of Hope (1940)

François MauriacBoth received Grand Prize for the Best Novels of the Half-Century

Georges BernanosBoth received Grand Prize for the Best Novels of the Half-Century

André GideBoth received Grand Prize for the Best Novels of the Half-Century

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