François Mauriac

François Charles Mauriac (French: [moʁjak]; 11 October 1885 – 1 September

François Mauriac
1970) was a French novelist, dramatist, critic, poet, and journalist, a member of
the Académie française (from 1933), and laureate of the Nobel Prize in
Literature (1952). He was awarded the Grand Cross of the Légion d'honneur in
1958. He was a lifelong Catholic.

Contents
Biography
Awards and honours
Works
Novels, novellas and short stories
Plays
Poetry Mauriac in 1933
Memoirs Born François Charles Mauriac
Biography 11 October 1885
Essays and criticism Bordeaux, France
See also Died 1 September 1970
References (aged 84)
External links Paris, France
Occupation Novelist, dramatist, critic,
poet, journalist
Biography Nationality France

François Charles Mauriac was born in Bordeaux, France. He studied literature

Education University of Bordeaux
(1905)École des Chartes
at the University of Bordeaux, graduating in 1905, after which he moved to
Paris to prepare for postgraduate study at theÉcole des Chartes. Notable Grand Prix du roman de
awards l'Académie française
On 1 June 1933 he was elected a member of the Académie française, 1926
succeeding Eugène Brieux.[1] Nobel Prize in Literature
1952
A former Action Francaise supporter, he turned to the left during the Spanish Relatives Anne Wiazemsky
Civil War, criticizing the Catholic Church for its support of Franco. He briefly (granddaughter)
supported Petain after France's fall, but joined the resistance as early as
December 1941. He was the only member of the Academie Francaise to publish
Signature
a resistance text with theEditions de Minuit.

Mauriac had a bitter dispute with Albert Camus immediately following the
liberation of France in World War II. At that time, Camus edited the resistance paper Combat (thereafter an overt daily, until 1947)
while Mauriac wrote a column for Le Figaro. Camus said newly liberated France should purge all Nazi collaborator elements, but
Mauriac warned that such disputes should be set aside in the interests of national reconciliation. Mauriac also doubted that justice
would be impartial or dispassionate given the emotional turmoil of liberation. Despite having been viciously criticised by Robert
Brasillach he campaigned against his execution.
Mauriac also had a bitter public dispute with Roger Peyrefitte, who criticised the Vatican in books such as Les Clés de saint Pierre
(1953). Mauriac threatened to resign from the paper he was working with at the time (L'Express) if they did not stop carrying
advertisements for Peyrefitte's books. The quarrel was exacerbated by the release of the film adaptation of Peyrefitte's Les Amitiés
Particulières and culminated in a virulent open letter by Peyrefitte in which he accused Mauriac of homosexual tendencies and called
him a "Tartuffe".[2]

Mauriac was opposed toFrench rule in Vietnam, and strongly condemned the use of torture by the French army in Algeria.

In 1952 he won the 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".[3] He was awarded the Grand Cross of theLégion d'honneur in 1958.[4] He published a series of
personal memoirs and a biography of Charles de Gaulle. Mauriac's complete works were published in twelve volumes between 1950
and 1956. He encouraged Elie Wiesel to write about his experiences as a Jew during the Holocaust, and wrote the foreword to Elie
Wiesel's book Night.

He was the father of writer Claude Mauriac and grandfather of Anne Wiazemsky, a French actress and author who worked with and
married French directorJean-Luc Godard.

François Mauriac died in Paris on 1 September 1970 and was interred in the
Cimetière de Vemars, Val d'Oise, France.

Awards and honours

1926 — Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française
1933 — Member of theAcadémie française
1952 — Nobel Prize in Literature
1958 — Grand Cross of theLégion d'honneur

Works

Novels, novellas and short stories

1913 – L'Enfant chargé de chaînes(«Young Man in Chains», tr. 1961)
1914 – La Robe prétexte («The Stuff of Youth», tr. 1960)
1920 – La Chair et le Sang («Flesh and Blood», tr. 1954)
1921 – Préséances («Questions of Precedence», tr. 1958)
1922 – Le Baiser au lépreux («The Kiss to the Leper», tr. 1923 / «A Kiss to the Leper», tr. 1950)
1923 – Le Fleuve de feu («The River of Fire», tr. 1954)
1923 – Génitrix («Genetrix», tr. 1950)
1923 – Le Mal («The Enemy», tr. 1949)
1925 – Le Désert de l'amour («The Desert of Love», tr. 1949) (Awarded the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie
française, 1926.)
1927 – Thérèse Desqueyroux («Thérèse», tr. 1928 / «Thérèse Desqueyroux», tr. 1947 and 2005)
1928 – Destins («Destinies», tr. 1929 / «Lines of Life», tr. 1957)
1929 – Trois Récits A volume of three stories:Coups de couteau, 1926; Un homme de lettres, 1926; Le Démon de la
connaissance, 1928
1930 – Ce qui était perdu («Suspicion», tr. 1931 / «That Which Was Lost», tr. 1951)
1932 – Le Nœud de vipères («Vipers' Tangle», tr. 1933 / «The Knot of Vipers», tr. 1951)
1933 – Le Mystère Frontenac («The Frontenac Mystery», tr. 1951 / «The Frontenacs», tr. 1961)
1935 – La Fin de la nuit («The End of the Night», tr. 1947)
1936 – Les Anges noirs («The Dark Angels», tr. 1951 / «The Mask of Innocence», tr. 1953)
1938 – Plongées A volume of five stories:Thérèse chez le docteur, 1933 («Thérèse and the Doctor», tr. 1947);
Thérèse à l'hôtel, 1933 («Thérèse at the Hotel», tr. 1947); Le Rang; Insomnie; Conte de Noël.
1939 – Les Chemins de la mer(«The Unknown Sea», tr. 1948)
1941 – La Pharisienne («A Woman of Pharisees», tr. 1946)
 1951 – Le Sagouin («The Weakling», tr. 1952 / «The Little Misery», tr. 1952) (A novella)
1952 – Galigaï («The Loved and the Unloved», tr. 1953)
1954 – L'Agneau («The Lamb», tr. 1955)
1969 – Un adolescent d'autrefois(«Maltaverne», tr. 1970)
1972 – Maltaverne (the unfinished sequel to the previous novel;posthumously published)

Plays
1938 – Asmodée («Asmodée; or, The Intruder», tr. 1939 / «Asmodée: A Drama in Three Acts», tr
. 1957)
1945 – Les Mal Aimés
1948 – Passage du malin
1951 – Le Feu sur terre

Poetry
1909 – Les Mains jointes
1911 – L'Adieu à l'Adolescence
1925 – Orages
1940 – Le Sang d'Atys

Memoirs
1931 – Holy Thursday: an Intimate Remembrance
1960 – Memoires Interieurs
1962 – Ce Que Je Crois
1964 – Soiree Tu Danse

Biography
1937 – Life of Jesus

Essays and criticism

1919 – Petits Essais de Psychologie Religieuse: De quelques coeurs inquiets.Paris: Societe litteraire de France.
1919.
1936 - “God and Mammon” in ‘Essays in Order: New Series, No. 1’. Edited by Christopher Dawson and Bernard
Wall. Published in London by Sheed & Ward
1961 – Second Thoughts: Reflections on literature and on Life(tr. by Adrienne Foulke). Darwen Finlayson
François Mauriac on Race, War, Politics, and Religion: The Great War Through the 1960s. Washington, D.C.:
Catholic University of America Press. 2016. ISBN 978-0-8132-2789-4. Edited and translated by Nathan Bracher .

See also
Georges Bernanos
Julien Green

References
1. Cf. Académie française, Les immortels: François Mauriac (1885–1970)(http://www.academie-francaise.fr/immortels/
base/academiciens/fiche.asp?param=562)Archived (https://web.archive.org/web/20080920040007/http://www .acad
emie-francaise.fr/immortels/base/academiciens/fiche.asp?param=562)2008-09-20 at the Wayback Machine (in
French)
 2. Sibalis, Michael D. (2006)."Peyrefitte, Roger" (https://web.archive.org/w
eb/20070926215942/http://www.glbtq.com/literature/peyrefitte_r.html).
glbtq.com. Archived from the original (http://www.glbtq.com/literature/pe
yrefitte_r.html) on 2007-09-26. Retrieved 2008-02-03
3. Cf. The Nobel Foundation,The Nobel Prize in Literature 1952: François
Mauriac (http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1952/ind
ex.html) (in English)
4. Cf. Académie française, Les immortels: François Mauriac (1885–1970)
(http://www.academie-francaise.fr/immortels/base/academiciens/fiche.as
p?param=562) Archived (https://web.archive.org/web/20080920040007/
His grave in Vémars.
http://www.academie-francaise.fr/immortels/base/academiciens/fiche.as
p?param=562) 2008-09-20 at the Wayback Machine (in French)

External links
Works by or about François Mauriacat Internet Archive
Le site littéraire François Mauriac(in French)
The François Mauriac Centre at Malagar (Saint-Maixant, Gironde)(in French)
Works by or about François Mauriacin libraries (WorldCat catalog)
Université McGill: le roman selon les romanciers(in French)Inventory and analysis of François Mauriac's non-
noveltistic writing
Jean le Marchand & John P.C. Train (Summer 1953). "Interviews: François Mauriac, The Art of Fiction No. 2". The
Paris Review. No. 2. pp. 1–15. (in English)

Non-profit organization positions

Wartime International Presidential
Preceded by Committee 1941–47 PEN Succeeded by
Denis Saurat International Thornton Wilder
1941–1946

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