Awards & Winners

Roger Martin du Gard

Date of Birth 23-March-1881
Place of Birth Neuilly-sur-Seine
(Hauts-de-Seine, ÃŽle-de-France, France, Paris, Nanterre)
Nationality France
Also know as Roger M. Du Gard
Profession Author
Roger Martin du Gard was a French author and winner of the 1937 Nobel Prize for Literature. Trained as a paleographer and archivist, Martin du Gard brought to his works a spirit of objectivity and a scrupulous regard for detail. Because of his concern with documentation and with the relationship of social reality to individual development, he has been linked with the realist and naturalist traditions of the 19th century. His major work was The Thibaults, a multi-volume roman fleuve that follows the fortunes of the two brothers, Antoine and Jacques Thibault, from their upbringing in a prosperous Catholic bourgeois family to the end of the First World War. Six parts of the novel were published between 1922 and 1929; Martin du Gard abandoned a seventh in manuscript before completing the two final installments, l'Été 1914 and l'Épilogue. Written under the shadow of the darkening international situation in Europe in the 1930s, these last parts, which together are longer than the previous six combined, focus on the political and historical situation leading up to the outbreak of the First World War, and conclude with the death of Antoine Thibault in 1918.

Awards by Roger Martin du Gard

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1937


Nobel Prize in Literature
(for the artistic power and truth with which he has depicted human conflict as well as some fundamental aspects of contemporary life in his novel-cycle Les Thibault)

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Nobel Prize in Literature

1936


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Nobel Prize in Literature

1935


Nominations 1935 »

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Nobel Prize in Literature

1934


Nominations 1934 »

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Nobel Prize in Literature