Author won Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913
Anatole France (Jacques-Anatole-Francois Thibault) was born in
Paris in 1844, the only son of a book dealer. Working throughout
his life in the publishing industry, he also contributed to various
reviews and from 1873 was beginning to focus on his own creative
writing. In 1897 he was elected to the Academic Francaise. The
decisive shift in his career came in his participation in the
Dreyfus affair, on behalf of the convicted Jewish officer. It
marked the first stage of his emergence as one of the
'representative men' of his epoch, and brought about his conversion
to socialism. Subsequent works reflect thsi sharpened humane
concern. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1921. He
died in 1924.
Frederick Davies is widely known as the translator of the plays of
Carlo Goldini. He is a Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge.
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