André Malraux
1901 – 1976 · aged 75
French novelist, art theorist, and statesman (1901–1976)
- Born
- 3 Nov 1901 · 18th arrondissement of Paris
- Died
- 23 Nov 1976 · Créteil
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- 3 Nov 1901BornBorn in 18th arrondissement of Paris
- 1930AwardPrix Interallié
- 1933AwardPrix Goncourt
- 1936 – 1939WarSpanish Civil War
- 1939 – 1945WarWorld War II
- 1945AwardLouis Delluc Prize
- 1950AwardGrand Prize for the Best Novels of the Half-Century
- 1959 – 1969RoleMinister of State
- 1959 – 1962RoleMinister of Culture (France)
- 1962 – 1966RoleMinister of Culture (France)
- 1966 – 1967RoleMinister of Culture (France)
- 1967 – 1968RoleMinister of Culture (France)
- 1968 – 1969RoleMinister of Culture (France)
- 1972AwardJawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding
- 1976AwardAlfonso Reyes International Prize
- 23 Nov 1976DiedDied in Créteil
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Meanwhile in the world
Major world events during their lifetime (1901 – 1976).
- 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
- 1914 – 1918World War I
- 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
- 1917Balfour Declaration
- 1917February Revolution
- 1917October Revolution
- 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
- 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
- 1920Treaty of Versailles
- 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
- 19341934 FIFA World Cup
- 19361936 Summer Olympics
- 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
- 19381938 FIFA World Cup
- 1938Munich Agreement
- 1939 – 1940Winter War
- 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
- 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
- 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
- 1941Operation Barbarossa
- 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
- 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
- 19501950 FIFA World Cup
- 1950 – 1953Korean War
- 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
- 19541954 FIFA World Cup
- 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
- 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
- 1956Suez Crisis
- 19581958 FIFA World Cup
- 1959Antarctic Treaty System
- 19621962 FIFA World Cup
- 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
- 19661966 FIFA World Cup
- 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
- 1968Prague Spring
- 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
- 19721972 Summer Olympics
- 19741974 FIFA World Cup
Biography
Georges André Malraux ( mal-ROH; French: [ʒɔʁʒ ɑ̃dʁe malʁo] ; 3 November 1901 – 23 November 1976) was a French novelist, member of the French Resistance, art theorist, and minister of cultural affairs.
Malraux's 1933 novel La Condition Humaine (Man's Fate) is set during the 1927 Shanghai uprising and won the Prix Goncourt; L'Espoir (Man's Hope), written in 1937, arose from his experiences during the Spanish Civil War. After the Second World War he abandoned fiction and wrote several works on art history, collected as La Psychologie de l'Art (The Voices of Silence, 1953). He was appointed by Charles de Gaulle as information minister (1945–46) and subsequently as France's first cultural affairs minister during de Gaulle's presidency (1959–1969).
Text from the Wikipedia article André Malraux, CC BY-SA 4.0
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