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more general categories information about this item 10. Noble Prize 10. Noble Prize Literature (114) 11. Award Year 11. Award Year 1940s (43) 1947 (8) 12. Winner Type 12. Winner Type Person (904) 13. Gender 13. Gender Male (853) 14. Birth Year 14. Birth Year 1860s (52) 1869 (6) 15. Place of Birth 15. Place of Birth Europe (459) Europe, western (207) France (55) Paris (22) 16. Death Year 16. Death Year 1950s (45) 1951 (4) 17. Place of Death 17. Place of Death Europe (331) Europe, western (182) France (51) Paris (25) 19. Given Name 19. Given Name A-D (182) A (79) 20. Family Name 20. Family Name E-K (239) G (47) 23. Religion 23. Religion Religious group (353) Christianity (158) Protestant (78) 24. Age at Award Time 24. Age at Award Time 70 - 79 (179) 79 (8) 32. Occupations 32. Occupations Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations (123) Media and Communication Workers (117) News Analysts, Reporters and Journalists (11) News Analysts, Reporters, and Journalists (11) 34. Citizens 34. Citizens Europe (450) Europe, western (223) France (60) 43. Affilliation with Secondary School 43. Affilliation with Secondary School Europe (60) Europe, western (50) France (23) Paris (21) Lycée Henri-IV (3) 45. Other Awards 45. Other Awards G-H (389) G (254) Goethe Plaque of the City of Frankfurt (7) complete name: André Paul Guillaume Gide nobel prize: literature award year: 1947 prize share: Prize share: 1/1 rational: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1947 was awarded to André Paul Guillaume Gide "for his comprehensive and artistically significant writings, in which human problems and conditions have been presented with a fearless love of truth and keen psychological insight." biography: Biography laureate facts: Facts birth name: André Paul Guillaume Gide given name: André family name: Gide occupation: writer occupation: playwright occupation: translator occupation: author occupation: journalist occupation: film producer occupation: travel writer occupation: novelist occupation: essayist occupation: autobiographer occupation: diarist work location: Le Figaro, Paris, France notable work: Strait is the Gate notable work: The Immoralist notable work: The Counterfeiters notable work: La Symphonie Pastorale description: André Paul Guillaume Gide was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1947 "for his comprehensive and artistically significant writings, in which human problems and conditions have been presented with a fearless love of truth and keen psychological insight". Gide's career ranged from its beginnings in the symbolist movement, to the advent of anticolonialism between the two World Wars. Known for his fiction as well as his autobiographical works, Gide exposes to public view the conflict and eventual reconciliation of the two sides of his personality, split apart by a straitlaced education and a narrow social moralism. Gide's work can be seen as an investigation of freedom and empowerment in the face of moralistic and puritanical constraints, and centres on his continuous effort to achieve intellectual honesty. His self-exploratory texts reflect his search of how to be fully oneself, even to the point of owning one's sexual nature, without at the same time betraying one's values. His political activity is informed by the same ethos, as indicated by his repudiation of communism after his 1936 voyage to the USSR. pronunciation: (French: [ɑ̃dʁe pɔl ɡijom ʒid]) image copyright: Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. image citation: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1947. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1947/summary/> date birth: 1869 date death: 1951 usual name: André Gide
