André Malraux

French novelist, art theorist, and statesman (1901–1976)

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Lived 1901–1976, aged 75France

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Era
1901–1976
Aged 75

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Updated 2026-05-29

French novelist who won the Prix Goncourt with La Condition Humaine, swapped fiction for art theory after WWII, then became de Gaulle's cultural minister and helped shape how France thought about its own culture.

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Georges André Malraux was a French novelist, member of the French Resistance, art theorist, and minister of cultural affairs. Malraux's novel La Condition Humaine (1933) is set during the 1927 Shanghai uprising and won the Prix Goncourt; L'Espoir arose from his experiences during the Spanish Civil War. After the Second World War he abandoned fiction and wrote several works on art history, collected as La Psychologie de l'Art. He was appointed by President Charles de Gaulle as information minister (1945–46) and subsequently as France's first cultural affairs minister during de Gaulle's presiden…

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