André Gide

Personal Info

Know For

Writing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1869-11-22 (82 years old)

Deathday

1951-02-19

Place of Birth

Paris, France

André Gide

Biography

André Paul Guillaume Gide (22 November 1869 – 19 February 1951) was a French author whose writings spanned a wide variety of styles and topics. He was awarded the 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature. Gide's career ranged from his beginnings in the symbolist movement, to criticising imperialism between the two World Wars. The author of more than fifty books, he was described in his obituary in The New York Times as "France's greatest contemporary man of letters" and "judged the greatest French writer of this century by the literary cognoscenti." Known for his fiction as well as his autobiographical works, Gide expressed the conflict and eventual r...

Acting

1948

Paris 1900

as Self (archive footage)

1952

2020

L'affaire Matzneff

as (archive footage)

1932

Fanny

as (uncredited)

Production

1927

1946

1938

2013

1962

Prosessen

as Writer

1976

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