Romain Rolland

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Born:
Jan. 29, 1866
Died:
Dec. 30, 1944

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Romain Rolland (French: [ʁɔmɛ̃ ʁɔlɑ̃]; 29 January 1866 – 30 December 1944) was a French dramatist, novelist, essayist, art historian and mystic who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915 "as a tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary production and to the sympathy and love of truth with which he has described different types of human beings".He was a leading supporter of Joseph Stalin in France and is also noted for his correspondence with and influence on Sigmund Freud.

Books by Romain Rolland