Nobel Prize in Literature 1947
Nobel Prize in Literature 1947
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André Paul Guillaume Gide
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The Nobel Prize in Literature 1947 was awarded to André Paul Guillaume Gide "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"
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