Claude Simon

Claude Simon was born on 10 October 1913 in Antananarivo, in Madagascar, and grew up with his mother in Perpignan. He studied at the Collège Stanislas, in Paris, then followed the painting classes of André Lhote's academy. In 1936 he went to Spain during the civil war. Mobilised in August 1939 in the cavalry, he took part in the fighting of May 1940, fell into German hands and escaped in October 1940. He published his first books in the aftermath of the war. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1985 and died in Paris on 6 July 2005.

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• NovelThe Flanders RoadLa Route des FlandresClaude Simon · 1960Literature