Roger Martin du Gard

1881 – 1958 · aged 77

French writer (1881–1958)

Born: 23 Mar 1881 · Neuilly-sur-Seine
Died: 22 Aug 1958 · Château du Tertre

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23 Mar 1881BornBorn in Neuilly-sur-Seine
1937AwardGrand Prix littéraire de la Ville de Paris
1937AwardNobel Prize in Literature
1951AwardCommander of the Legion of Honour
22 Aug 1958DiedDied in Château du Tertre

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Major world events during their lifetime (1881 – 1958).

18961896 Summer Olympics
1898Spanish–American War
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
1939 – 1945World War II
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

Biography

Roger Martin du Gard (French: [ʁɔʒe maʁtɛ̃ dy ɡaʁ]; 23 March 1881 – 22 August 1958) was a French novelist, winner of the 1937 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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