Nobel laureate
François Mauriac — Nobel Prize in Literature 1952
“for the deep spiritual insight and the artistic intensity with which he has in his novels penetrated the drama of human life”
Prize motivation
“for the deep spiritual insight and the artistic intensity with which he has in his novels penetrated the drama of human life”
The Swedish Academy awarded François Mauriac the 1952 Nobel Prize in Literature for the deep spiritual insight and the artistic intensity with which he has in his novels penetrated the drama of human life.
Other laureates of the 1950s
Sources & data
- Nobel Prize API (CC0).