Claude Simon Quotes
For me, the big chore is always the same: how to begin a sentence, how to continue it, how to complete it.
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| Birth: | 10th October, 1913 |
| Death: | 6th July, 2005 |
| Nationality: | French |
| Profession: | Novelist |
Claude Simon was born in Antananarivo, Madagascar. He was a French novelist and the 1985 Nobel Laureate in Literature. He managed to escape and joined the resistance movement. At the same time he completed his first novel, Le Tricheur, which he had started to write before the war. In 1961 Claude Simon received the prize of L'Express for La Route des Flandres and in 1967 the Médicis prize for Histoire. The University of East Anglia made him honorary doctor in 1973.
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