André Gide

André Gide was born in Paris on 22 November 1869 into a Protestant family; his mother had received a strict Calvinist upbringing. A pupil at the lycée Henri-IV, he married his cousin Madeleine Rondeaux in 1895 and took part in 1908 in the founding of the Nouvelle Revue française. A journey to Equatorial Africa led him to denounce colonial exploitation; later drawn to communism, he broke away from it after a stay in the Soviet Union in 1936. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1947, he died in Paris on 19 February 1951.

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• NovelThe CounterfeitersLes Faux-MonnayeursAndré Gide · 1925LiteraturePublic domain