Anatole France

Anatole France
BornFrançois-Anatole Thibault
(1844-04-16)16 April 1844
Paris, France
Died12 October 1924(1924-10-12) (aged 80)
Tours, France
OccupationNovelist
Notable awardsNobel 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]

  1. ^ "Anatole France, Great Author, Dies", The New York Times, October 13, 1924, p.1
  2. ^ "The Nobel Prize in Literature 1921". www.nobelprize.org. Retrieved 28 September 2023.
  3. ^ "Marcel Proust: A Life, by Edmund White". 12 July 2010. Retrieved 28 September 2023.