Profession:Writer

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Biography: André Gide was a French author best known for winning the 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature "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."

His works tended to be concerned with the relationship between an individual and the society in which they lived, particularly the difficulty if not impossibility of reconciliation in the contradictions between these aspects.

This theme followed naturally from Gide's self-declared pederasty.

Born:November 22,1869
Birthplace: Paris, France
Star Sign:Sagittarius

Died:February 19,1951 (aged 81)
Cause of Death:Pneumonia

• 1936-11-05 French writer Andre Gide criticizes the Soviet regime in his "Return from the U. S. S. R" after his visit to the Soviet Union
• 1952-06-01 Catholic church puts Andre Gides "Labor" on the index

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