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Books on: Nobel prize mauriac

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The Who's Who of Nobel Prize Winners, 1901-2000

Book by Louise S. Sherby; Oryx Press, 2002

Subjects:

Biography--20th Century--Dictionaries, Nobel Prizes

Collections: History, Entire Library

The Who's Who of Nobel Prize Winners is a one-stop source of detailed information on the men and women who earned the Nobel Prize during the 20th century. Organized chronologically by prize, each extensive article contains in-depth information on the laureate's life and career as well as a selected ...
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The Who's Who of Nobel Prize Winners is a one-stop source of detailed information on the men and women who earned the Nobel Prize during the 20th century. Organized chronologically by prize, each extensive article contains in-depth information on the laureate's life and career as well as a selected list of his or her publications and biographical resources on the individual. A concise commentary explains why the laureate received the award and summarizes the individual's other important achievements. This completely updated edition also contains a history of the prize. Four indexes distinguish this title from similar biographical references and enable researchers to search by name, education, nationality or citizenship, and religion.
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Peacemakers: Winners of the Nobel Peace Prize

Book by Ann T. Keene; Oxford University Press, 1998

Subjects:

Nobel Prizes--History--Juvenile Literature, Pacifists--Biography--Juvenile Literature, Peace--Awards--History--Juvenile Literature

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Pauling (1962), who also won a Nobel Prize for Chemistry; and Swedish sociologist...in Stockholm. In 1968 a sixth Nobel Prize, in the field of economics, was...three individuals can receive any Nobel Prize jointly in any given year. Although...
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Franpcois Mauriac: The Making of an Intellectual

Book by Edward Welch; Rodopi, 2006

Subjects:

Intellectuals--France--20th Century, Journalists--France--20th Century, Mauriac, Fran?Cois--1885-1970, Mauriac, Fran?Cois--1885-1970--Criticism And Interpretation

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...which helped him win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1952...journalism. This evolution in Mauriacs activities is the subject...Stockholm to receive the Nobel Prize. We see how the collision...these two events obliges Mauriac to interrogate, in ways...
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The Art of French Fiction: Prevost, Stendahl, Zola, Maupassant, Gide, Mauriac, Proust

Book by Martin Turnell; New Directions, 1959

Subjects:

French fiction--History and criticism, Gide, Andre--1869-1951, Maupassant, Guy de--1850-1893, Mauriac, Francois--1885-1970, Prevost, abbe--1697-1763, Proust, Marcel--1871-1922

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...PREVOST STENDHAL ZOLA MAUPASSANT GIDE MAURIAC PROUST BY MARTIN TURNELL On est...me to be his lasting claim to fame. Mauriac provides an opportunity for the study...from Barbey dAurevilly to Bernanos and Mauriac himself. He also offers an interesting...
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The Frontenacs

Book by François Mauriac, Gerard Hopkins; Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1961

Subjects:

Fiction

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

THE FRONTENACS Books by FRANCOIS MAURIAC winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature MEMOIRES INTERIEURS QUESTIONS...the sweltering weeks which immediately preceded Prize-Day, he would have put him on his guard against...

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Journal Articles on: Nobel prize mauriac

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The Cold-War Christian Humanism of Francois Mauriac

Journal article by Nathan Bracher; Christianity and Literature, Vol. 52, 2003

Subjects:

Christian literature--Political aspects, Cold War, 1945-1991--History, Editorials--Criticism and interpretation, Editorials--Religious aspects, Humanism, Religious--Political aspects, La Paix des cimes (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, Mauriac, Francois--Criticism and interpretation, Religious humanism--Political aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...humankinds predicament in the later 1940s and early 1950s. After receiving the Nobel Prize for literature in 1952 largely on the basis of his psychological novels, Mauriac achieved even greater notoriety through a series of highly influential press...
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Through the Past Darkly: History and Memory in Francois Mauriac's Bloc-Notes

Journal article by Bernard Doering; Christianity and Literature, Vol. 54, 2005

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Through the Past Darkly: History and Memory in Francois Mauriac's Bloc-notes (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Literature, Entire Library

...liberation. Francois Mauriac did not conform to this...backstage. After winning a Nobel Prize in 1952 for his novels...service of restoring Mauriac to the place of honor...study of the editorials Mauriac published as Bloc-notes...
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Reviewed Elsewhere

Journal article; Biography, Vol. 25, 2002

Subjects:

Biography--Evaluation, Books--Evaluation

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...pasionaria, co-founder of the Femina Prize and of the League of Human Rights, a figure who had her supporters for the Nobel Prize in 1919. Philippe-Jean Catinchi. Le Monde des Livres, Jan. 18, 2002: 2. Serge, Victor Victor Serge: The Course...
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Reviewed Elsewhere

Journal article; Biography, Vol. 28, 2005

Subjects:

All Under Heaven: The Story of a Chinese Family in South Africa (Book)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews, L'Abbe Alary (1690-1770): Un homme d'influence au XVIIIe siecle (Book)--Book reviews, The Moon Can Wait (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...receiving, at age 25, the 1915 Nobel Prize in physics (which he shared...He remains the youngest ever Nobel laureate.... Hunters book has...des Livres, Sept. 3, 2004: 7. Mauriac, Francois Dun Bloc-Notes a...been awarded the Essay Renaudot Prize. Jeanne Proust, spouse of Dr...
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Reviewed Elsewhere

Journal article; Biography, Vol. 27, 2004

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...ago in Warsaw, yiddish-written papers had a circulation of hundreds of thousands and that when Singer was awarded the Nobel Prize (1978), that language had become "the language of nobody." Admired by his peers (Saul Bellow and Henry Miller, for instance...

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Magazine Articles on: Nobel prize mauriac

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The Literary Politics of the Nobel Prize

Magazine article by Jeffrey Meyers; The Antioch Review, Vol. 65, Spring 2007

Subjects:

Literary prizes--Analysis, Literary prizes--Political aspects, Nobel Prizes

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...the prize. Pinter said that after the Nobel he would write no more plays. The Academys...four Asians, and ten women have won the prize. In November 1980 the influential Academy...Pirandello, Hesse, Russell, Lagerkvist, Mauriac, Churchill, Pasternak, Quasimodo...
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Saving Remnant

Magazine article by M.D. Aeschliman; National Review, Vol. 59, February 12, 2007

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Michael Polanyi: The Art of Knowing (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Entire Library

...to Germany. Born, who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1954, had worked alongside and trained several other Nobel physicists in Germany in the interwar...credited by many, including Francois Mauriac, with being the decisive influence on...
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The Burden of Responsibility: Blum, Camus, Aron, and the French Twentieth Century

Magazine article by Daniel J. Mahoney; The National Interest, Summer 1999

Subjects:

Books--Reviews

Collections: Entire Library

...of those figures such as Francois Mauriac, Raymond Aron and Albert Camus who...than three years after receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature, Camus was an increasingly...and political commentator Francois Mauriac, who identified political responsibility...
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The Berlin Wall: A Secret History: The Berlin Wall Was a Tangible Symbol of the Suppression of Human Rights by the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War, but Frederick Taylor Asks Whether It Was More Convenient to the Western Democracies Than Their Rhetoric Suggested

Magazine article; History Today, Vol. 57, February 2007

Subjects:

Berlin Crisis, 1961--Analysis, Berlin Wall--History, Berlin Wall--Political aspects, German history, 1945-1990--Analysis, Western philosophy--Analysis, Western philosophy--History

Collections: Philosophy, History, Entire Library

...part of his plan for French dominance of the continent. Another great Frenchman, the Nobel prize-winning author, friend and biographer of de Gaulle, Francois Mauriac, would make the classic quip that I like Germany so much, I want two of her. So...
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Gleanings about Night from Wiesel's Memoirs

Magazine article by Carl D. Evans; Cross Currents, Vol. 57, Fall 2007

Subjects:

Holocaust survivors--Evaluation, Holocaust survivors--Social aspects, Holocaust survivors--Works, Night (Wiesel, Elie) (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation, Wiesel, Elie--Evaluation, Wiesel, Elie--Social aspects, Wiesel, Elie--Works

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...The French Catholic writer and Nobel laureate Francois Mauriac, whom Wiesel first met in 1955...in getting Night published. Mauriac and Wiesel admired each other...respected each others work. Mauriac was the first person to read...

Newspaper Articles on: Nobel prize mauriac

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From the Jaws of Death Camp to the Birth a Nation

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), May 18, 1996

Subjects:

Wiesel, Elie

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...unforgettable sorrow. He has won the Nobel Peace Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom...novelist and campaigner Francois Mauriac, a man of colossal moral power...irritable Yiddish novelist and fellow Nobel-Prizeman, Isaac Bashevis Singer...

Encyclopedia Articles on: Nobel prize mauriac

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Mauriac, FranÇois

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Second Thoughts, 1961), Prousts Way (1949, tr. 1950), and Cain, Where Is Your Brother? (tr. 1962). Mauriac received the 1952 Nobel Prize in Literature. See his memoirs (1959, tr. 1960); study by C. Jenkins (1965...

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