 The 1952 Nobel Prize in Literature | |
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| François Mauriac | |
 "for the deep spiritual insight and the artistic intensity with which he has in his novels penetrated the drama of human life." | |
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| Location | Stockholm, Sweden |
| Presented by | Swedish Academy |
| First awarded | 1901 |
| Website | Official website |
The 1952 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the French Catholic writer François Mauriac (1885–1970) "for the deep spiritual insight and the artistic intensity with which he has in his novels penetrated the drama of human life."[1] He is the eight French author to receive the prize after the novelist André Gide in 1947.
- ^ Nobel Prize in Literature 1952 nobelprize.org