Martin du Gard

American  

[mar-tan dy gar] / mar tɛ̃ dü ˈgar /

noun

1. Roger 1881–1958, French novelist: Nobel Prize 1937.

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Martin du Gard British  

/ martɛ̃ dy ɡar /

noun

1. Roger (rɔʒe). 1881–1958, French novelist, noted for his series of novels, Les Thibault (1922–40): Nobel prize for literature 1937

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For several days, while rumors spread that he had been murdered, Martin du Gard worked quietly at home.

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The world of letters blinked a little in 1937 when the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Roger Martin du Gard.

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Its little-known writer was Roger Martin du Gard.

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Martin du Gard, said the New York Herald Tribune loftily, "reconciles at once the fastidious preciosity of Proust and Rolland's passionate evangelism with the traditional body of art."

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After World War I, in which he had charge of an army truck corps, Martin du Gard conceived the idea of The Thibaults and reorganized his life to write it according to plan.

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