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Something wrong?A French novelist who won the 1985 Nobel Prize in Literature, pulling global attention to a career built in prose that defied conventional narrative.
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Claude Eugène Henri Simon was born on 10 October 1913 in France. He built his reputation as a novelist over decades, working in forms that broke from traditional storytelling. In 1985, the Nobel committee chose him for the Prize in Literature, cementing his place in the canon. He continued writing until his death on 6 July 2005, leaving behind a body of work that reshaped what the novel could do.
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