François Mauriac

François Mauriac was born in Bordeaux in 1885. He studied at the University of Bordeaux and then enrolled at the École Nationale des Chartes in Paris, which he soon left to dedicate himself to writing. In the years that followed, he distinguished himself as a novelist, essayist, poet, playwright, and journalist, and in 1952, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. In 1933, he was elected a member of the French Academy. He passed away in Paris in 1970.