André Gide

André Paul Guillaume Gide was born in Paris, French Empire, on 22 November 1869. He was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1947 "for his comprehensive and artistically significant writings, in which human problems and conditions have been presented with a fearless love of truth and keen psychological insight". Gide's career ranged from its beginnings in the symbolist movement, to the advent of anticolonialism between the two World Wars. The author of "more than fifty books", at the time of his death his obituary in The New York Times described him as "France's greatest contemporary man of letters" and "judged the greatest French writer of this century by the literary cognoscenti. Gide died in Paris on 19 February 1951. The Roman Catholic Church placed his works on the Index of Forbidden Books in 1952.

André Gide (1869-1951)

LES FAUX-MONNAYEUERS

ISABELLE (1911)

THE IMMORALIST (1902)

FRUITS  OF THE EARTH (1897)

IF IT DIE (1935)

NOTES ON CHOPIN (1948)