Claude Simon (1913-2005)

Awarded the Prize “for who in his novel combines the poet’s the painter’s creativeness with a deepened awareness of time in the depiction of the human condition.”

French writer. Simon was born on October 10, 1913 at Tananarive, Madagascar. Simon attended Collége Stanislas in Paris, Lycée Saint-Louis for naval career, but was dismissed. He studied art with Andre Lhéte, Oxford Cambridge universities. With the outbreak of World War II, Simon rejoined the Dragoons, took part in the Battle of Meuse in 1940. He was captured by the Germans, sent to a prison camp in Saxony. On the transition to a prison camp in France, he escaped joined the Resistance. He lived in Paris spends part of the year at Salses in the Pyrenees. He died on July 6, 2005 in Paris, France.
Major Works:
Le Tricheur (1945); La Corde raide (1947); Gulliver. 1952. Le Sacre du printemps (1954); Le Vent.