Romain Rolland
1866 – 1944 · aged 78
French author (1866-1944)
- Born
- 29 Jan 1866 · Clamecy
- Died
- 30 Dec 1944 · Vézelay
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- 29 Jan 1866BornBorn in Clamecy
- 1889 – 1891RoleMember of the École française de Rome
- 1905AwardPrix Femina
- 1913AwardGrand prix de littérature de l'Académie française
- 1915AwardNobel Prize in Literature
- 30 Dec 1944DiedDied in Vézelay
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Major world events during their lifetime (1866 – 1944).
- 1870 – 1871Franco-Prussian War
- 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
Biography
Romain Rolland (French: [ʁɔmɛ̃ ʁɔlɑ̃]; 29 January 1866 – 30 December 1944) was a French dramatist, novelist, essayist, art historian and mystic who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915 "as a tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary production and to the sympathy and love of truth with which he has described different types of human beings".
He was an admirer of Mahatma Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore and Joseph Stalin, wrote a still relevant biography of Gandhi, and is also noted for his correspondence with numerous writers and thinkers across the globe including Tagore, Maxim Gorki and Sigmund Freud.
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