Gide

American  

[zheed] / ʒid /

noun

1. André (Paul Guillaume) 1869–1951, French novelist, essayist, poet, and critic: Nobel Prize 1947.

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Gide British  

/ ʒid /

noun

1. André (ɑ̃dre). 1869–1951, French novelist, dramatist, critic, diarist, and translator, noted particularly for his exploration of the conflict between self-fulfilment and conventional morality. His novels include L'Immoraliste (1902), La Porte étroite (1909), and Les Faux-Monnayeurs (1926): Nobel prize for literature 1947

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Example Sentences

She was also considered a serious artist: “Colette is the greatest living French writer of fiction,” Katherine Anne Porter wrote in The New York Times in 1951, “and was while Gide and Proust still lived.”

From New York Times

In fact, “Marshlands” was written by the French novelist and journalist Gide, whose career extended from the late 19th century to his death in 1951.

From New York Times

So did André Gide and the French ambassador.

From New York Times

It includes an extraordinary portrait of André Gide: one of the great literary portraits.

From The Guardian

The production, which also draws on a 1903 play of the same name by the French author André Gide, is at once faithful to Saul’s story and utterly idiosyncratic.

From New York Times