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Georges André Malraux was a French novelist, member of the French Resistance, art theorist, and minister of cultural affairs. Malraux's novel La Condition Humaine (1933) is set during the 1927 Shanghai uprising and won the Prix Goncourt; L'Espoir arose from his experiences during the Spanish Civil War. After the Second World War he abandoned fiction and wrote several works on art history, collecte…

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culture · French novelist, art theorist, and statesman (1901–1976) · politician · film director · screenwriter · film editor · art historian · novelist · writer · journalist · art critic · prose writer · also André Malraux, Malraux

Born 3 November 1901 · Died 23 November 1976 · Q151164

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there is something far greater than history and it is the persistence of genius
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Awarded Alfonso Reyes International Prize (1976).
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Aug 17, 2026Documented record76% confidence

“there is something far greater than history and it is the persistence of genius”

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Apr 7, 2026Documented record69% confidence

The New Yorker: High Discourse on the Arts: André Malraux and Arnold Schoenberg

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2023· 1 entry

Apr 9, 2023Documented record69% confidence

The Daily Star: Honouring André Malraux’s Legacy

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2020· 1 entry

Aug 3, 2020Documented record69% confidence

Moviefone: André Malraux: Writer, Politician, Adventurer

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2017· 1 entry

Jan 6, 2017Documented record69% confidence

MutualArt.com: André Malraux

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2016· 1 entry

Nov 22, 2016Documented record69% confidence

Dhaka Tribune: André Malraux's 40th death anniversary

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2014· 1 entry

Apr 28, 2014Documented record69% confidence

The Daily Beast: Bernard-Henri Levy: Andre Malraux’s Bangladesh, Before the Radicals

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2005· 2 entries

Feb 28, 2005Documented record69% confidence

The New Criterion: Andre Malraux: Politicizing literature, fictionalizing politics

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2005Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Suggests that he had Tourette syndrome, although that has not been confirmed

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1977· 1 entry

1977Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

L'Homme précaire et la littérature, Malraux propounded the theory that there was a bibliothèque imaginaire where writers created works that influenced subsequent writers much as painters learned their craft by studying t

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1976· 12 entries

Nov 23, 1976Documented record86% confidence

Died 1976-11-23.

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Jun 15, 1976Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Alfonso Reyes International Prize (1976).

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“Opis: Perken do Klaudiusza Vannec.”

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“Wyobcowywać się bez zastrzeżeń ze świata, to się zawsze sprowadza do okrutnego cierpienia, by samemu sobie dowieść własnej mocy.”

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“Starzeć się to o tyle groźniejsze! Godzić się ze swoim losem, ze swym stanowiskiem, z tą psią budą wzniesioną nad jedynym przecie życiem… Kiedy jest się młodym, nie wie się, czym jest śmierć…”

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“Myśleć wbrew zbiorowości nigdy nie bywa bezpieczne. Do kogóż pójdę, jeżeli nie do tych, którzy się bronią, tak jak ja?”

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“Można by rzec, że w sztuce czas nie istnieje. (…) Właściwie każde dzieło sztuki zmierza do przemiany w mit.”

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“Młodość jest religią, z której prędzej czy później trzeba się w końcu nawrócić.”

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“Każda cywilizacja w swej najgłębszej istocie jest dla drugiej nieprzenikniona.”

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“Droga Królewska wiodła już tylko ku szczątkom, jakie po sobie pozostawiają, niczym szkielety, wędrówki ludów i pochody wojsk.”

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“Chanel, General De Gaulle and Picasso are the three most important figures of our time.”

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Jan 1, 1976Documented record76% confidence

“To transform destiny into awareness.”

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1972· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1972Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding (1972).

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1969· 1 entry

1969Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Was the main candidate considered for the prize along with Samuel Beckett

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1968· 1 entry

Jan 1, 1968Documented record84% confidence

Career landmark: Minister of Culture (France) (1968–1969).

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1967· 1 entry

Jan 1, 1967Documented record84% confidence

Career landmark: Minister of Culture (France) (1967–1968).

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1966· 1 entry

Jan 1, 1966Documented record84% confidence

Career landmark: Minister of Culture (France) (1966–1967).

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1964· 1 entry

1964Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Created the Inventaire général du patrimoine culturel to record all goods based on archival sources created by human kind throughout France

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1962· 2 entries

Jan 1, 1962Documented record84% confidence

Career landmark: Minister of Culture (France) (1962–1962).

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Jan 1, 1962Documented record84% confidence

Career landmark: Minister of Culture (France) (1962–1966).

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1959· 2 entries

Jan 1, 1959Documented record84% confidence

Career landmark: Minister of State (1959–1969).

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Jan 1, 1959Documented record84% confidence

Career landmark: Minister of Culture (France) (1959–1962).

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1958· 1 entry

1958Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Malraux became France's first Minister of Cultural Affairs, a post he held from 1958 to 1969

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1957· 1 entry

1957Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Malraux published the first volume of his trilogy on art entitled The Metamorphosis of the Gods

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1951· 1 entry

1951Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Which was adapted into the celebrated film The Earrings of Madame de

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1950· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1950Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Grand Prize for the Best Novels of the Half-Century for Man's Fate (1950).

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1948· 1 entry

1948Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Malraux married a second time, to Marie-Madeleine Lioux, a concert pianist and the widow of his half-brother, Roland Malraux

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1945· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1945Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Louis Delluc Prize for L'espoir (1945).

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1940· 1 entry

1940Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

During the Battle of France but escaped and later joined the French Resistance

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1937· 1 entry

1937Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Published L'Espoir (Man's Hope), a novel influenced by his Spanish war experiences

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1936· 1 entry

1936Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

As the Spanish Nationalists attempted to take Madrid, but the historian Hugh Thomas argues otherwise

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1933· 2 entries

Jun 15, 1933Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Prix Goncourt for Man's Fate (1933).

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1933Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Malraux published Man's Fate (La Condition Humaine), a novel about the 1927 failed Communist rebellion in Shanghai

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1930· 2 entries

Jun 15, 1930Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Prix Interallié for The Royal Way (1930).

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1930Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

After the international crash of the stock market and onset of the Great Depression

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1927· 2 entries

1927Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

First-hand as he often implied that he did, although he did do much reading on the subject

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1927Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Which marked the beginning of the Chinese Civil War that was to last on and off until 1949

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1925· 1 entry

1925Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

With Paul Monin, a progressive lawyer, he helped to organize the Young Annam League and founded a newspaper L'Indochine to champion Vietnamese independence

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1923· 1 entry

1923Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Aged 22, Malraux and Clara left for the French Protectorate of Cambodia

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1922· 1 entry

1922Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Malraux married Clara Goldschmidt

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1921· 1 entry

1921Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

By three semi-surrealist tales, one of which, "Paper Moons", was illustrated by Fernand Léger

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1901· 2 entries

Nov 3, 1901Documented record86% confidence

Born 1901-11-03.

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1901Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

The son of Fernand-Georges Malraux (1875–1930) and Berthe Félicie Lamy (1877–1932)

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1861· 1 entry

1861Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Had given Cambodia a romantic reputation in France, as the home of the vast, mysterious ruins of the Khmer empire

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