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Claude Simon
Claude Eugène Henri Simon was a French novelist and recipient of the 1985 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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culture · French novelist (1913–2005) · writer · novelist · also Claude Simon, Simon
Born 10 October 1913 · Died 6 July 2005 · Q131549
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2005· 1 entry
Died 2005-07-06.
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1996· 1 entry
Awarded Austrian Decoration for Science and Art (1996).
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1986· 1 entry
Awarded Grand Officer of the National Order of Merit (1986).
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1985· 3 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature — who in his novel combines the poet's and the painter's creativeness with a deepened awareness of time in the depiction of the human condition.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature (1985).
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Was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature with the citation "who in his novel combines the poet's and the painter's creativeness with a deepened awareness of time in the depiction of the human condition
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1967· 1 entry
Awarded Prix Médicis for Histoire (1967).
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1961· 1 entry
Claude Simon received the prize of L'Express for La Route des Flandres and in 1967 the Prix Médicis for Histoire
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1960· 1 entry
Was a signatory to the Manifesto of the 121 in favour of Algerian independence
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1944· 1 entry
Returned to Paris and the resistance movement
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1940· 1 entry
Took part in the battle of the Meuse and on 17 May escaped a massacre on his cavalry squadron
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1937· 1 entry
Travelled extensively through Spain, Germany, the Soviet Union, Italy, Greece, and Turkey
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1936· 1 entry
Went to Barcelona and volunteered in the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War
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1913· 1 entry
Born 1913-10-10.
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