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The Nobel Prize in Literature 1921

"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"
Anatole France
Anatole France
(pen-name of Jacques Anatole Thibault)
France
b. 1844
d. 1924
 
 
 
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