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French novelist, dramatist, critic, poet, and journalist (1885-1970)

François Charles Mauriac (French:[fʁɑ̃swaʃaʁlmoʁjak]; Occitan: Francés Carles Mauriac; 11 October 1885 – 1 September 1970) was a French novelist, dramatist, critic, poet, and journalist, a member of theAcadémie française (from 1933), and laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1952).

He was awarded the Grand Cross of the Légion d'honneur in 1958.

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He obeyed the Church as he would have obeyed his mother and he was not going to hell for Father Tyrrell.

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François Mauriac, a French novelist and Nobel Prize winner barely read in the English world, was born years ago today.

Mauriac had defined himself as a poet, and he fixed this identity in an autobiographical form; for autobiography and the novel can be viewed as.

Biography

François Charles Mauriac was born in Bordeaux, France. He studied literature at the University of Bordeaux, graduating in 1905, after which he moved to Paris to prepare for postgraduate study at the École des Chartes.

On 1 June 1933, he was elected a member of the Académie française, succeeding Eugène Brieux.^[1]

A former Action française supporter, he turned to the left during the Spanish Civil War, criticizing the Catholic Church for its support of Franco.

After the fall of France to the Axis during the