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The Nobel Prize in Literature 1947

"for his comprehensive and artistically significant writings, in which human problems and conditions have been presented with a fearless love of truth and keen psychological insight"
André Paul Guillaume Gide
André Paul Guillaume Gide
France
b. 1869
d. 1951
 
 
 
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