Mauriac

American  

[maw-ryahk] / mɔˈryɑk /

noun

1. François 1885–1970, French novelist: Nobel Prize 1952.

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Mauriac British  

/ mɔrjak /

noun

1. François (frɑ̃swa). 1885–1970, French novelist, noted esp for his psychological studies of the conflict between religious belief and human desire. His works include Le désert de l'amour (1925), Thérèse Desqueyroux (1927), and Le nœud de vipères (1932): Nobel prize for literature 1952

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Example Sentences

Still, Maurice de Mauriac, a niche producer which makes about 300 watches per year, has so far got round the supply problems.

From Reuters

Her mother was the daughter of François Mauriac, who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1952.

From Washington Post

Wiazemsky, a granddaughter of Nobel literature laureate François Mauriac, was a sometime muse and later a chronicler of Godard’s pioneering role in the French New Wave movement.

From Seattle Times

Twentieth-century French literary maven François Mauriac once observed, “If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.”

From Los Angeles Times

François Mauriac, the French-Catholic writer who had championed “Night,” had provided us the words.

From The New Yorker