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

Belgian Lotte Kopecky, who won stage one, launched her sprint at the end of a wet, 152km hilly route from Clermont-Ferrand to Mauriac first.

From BBC • Jul. 24, 2023

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

From Washington Post • Oct. 7, 2017

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 • Oct. 6, 2017

He embarked on the memoir with the encouragement of the French author François Mauriac, whom he had interviewed while working for a Tel Aviv newspaper.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 3, 2016

Cantal is divided into four arrondissements—Aurillac, Mauriac, Murat and St Flour—23 cantons and 267 communes.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" by Various