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| Born | François-Anatole Thibault 16 April 1844 Paris, France |
| Died | 12 October 1924 (aged 80) Tours, France |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Notable awards | Nobel Prize in Literature 1921 |
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Anatole France (French: [anatɔl fʁɑ̃s]; born François-Anatole Thibault [frɑ̃swa anatɔl tibo]; 16 April 1844 – 12 October 1924) was a French poet, journalist, and novelist with several best-sellers. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters.[1] He was a member of the Académie Française, and won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Literature "in recognition of his brilliant literary achievements, characterized as they are by a nobility of style, a profound human sympathy, grace, and a true Gallic temperament".[2]
France is also widely believed to be the model for narrator Marcel's literary idol Bergotte in Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time.[3]
- ^ "Anatole France, Great Author, Dies", The New York Times, October 13, 1924, p.1
- ^ "The Nobel Prize in Literature 1921". www.nobelprize.org. Retrieved 28 September 2023.
- ^ "Marcel Proust: A Life, by Edmund White". 12 July 2010. Retrieved 28 September 2023.