7/4/2023 0 Comments Anne garreta![]() ![]() ![]() In 1961 Claude Simon received the prize of L'Express for La Route des Flandres and in 1967 the Médicis prize for Histoire. In 1960, he was a signatory to the Manifesto of the 121 in favor of Algerian independence. He lived in Paris and used to spend part of the year at Salses in the Pyrenees. At the same time he completed his first novel, Le Tricheur ("The Cheat", published in 1946), which he had started to write before the war. He managed to escape and joined the resistance movement. At the beginning of the war Claude Simon took part in the battle of the Meuse (1940) and was taken prisoner. This experience as well as those from the Second World War show up in his literary work. He then travelled extensively through Spain, Germany, the Soviet Union, Italy and Greece. He grew up with his mother and her family in Perpignan in the middle of the wine district of Roussillon.Īmong his ancestors was a general from the time of the French Revolution.Īfter secondary school at Collège Stanislas in Paris and brief sojourns at Oxford and Cambridge he took courses in painting at the André Lhote Academy. His parents were French, his father being a career officer who was killed in the First World War. Claude Simon ( French: 10 October 1913 – 6 July 2005) was a French novelist, and was awarded the 1985 Nobel Prize in Literature.Ĭlaude Simon was born in Tananarive on the isle of Madagascar. ![]()
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