Roger Martin du Gard is read about 150 times a day, in 83 languages.
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The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 398 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?A French novelist who took the 1937 Nobel Prize in Literature, then faded from the general conversation - one of those names that still carries weight in certain rooms but rarely breaks into wider talk today.
A life in dates
Also in Deutsch
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In their own words 3
, We ‘made’ the moral law, we are not ‘made’ for it.
Liking does not mean love.
I cannot acknowledge violence, even against violence.
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About this person
Roger Martin du Gard was born on 23 March 1881 in France. He built a career as a novelist through the early and middle decades of the twentieth century, writing in a country and era thick with literary competition. In 1937 the Swedish Academy gave him the Nobel Prize in Literature, the highest stamp a writer can receive. He continued working into the postwar years. He died on 22 August 1958.
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