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    René Benjamin (1885 in Paris, France - 1948 in Tours, France) was a French writer. In 1915 he received the Prix Goncourt for his novel Gaspard. In 1938...
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    American rabbi Regina Benjamin (born 1956), 18th Surgeon General of the United States René Benjamin (1885–1948), French author Rich Benjamin, American journalist...
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    New York: New York Review Books Beckett, Samuel, Proust, London: Calder Benjamin, Walter, "The Image of Proust," Illuminations, trans. Harry Zohn (New York:...
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    Bertrand 1915 René Benjamin 1916 Henri Barbusse 1917 Henry Malherbe 1918 Georges Duhamel 1919 Marcel Proust 1920 Ernest Pérochon 1921 René Maran 1922 Henri...
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    it that she met École Normale students Jean-Paul Sartre, Paul Nizan, and René Maheu (who gave her the lasting nickname "Castor", or "beaver"). The jury...
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    Lucie Ceccaldi, a French physician born in Algeria of Corsican descent, and René Thomas, a ski instructor and mountain guide. He lived in Algeria from the...
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    novel The Sea Wall was first adapted into the 1958 film This Angry Age by René Clément, and again in 2008 by Cambodian director Rithy Panh as The Sea Wall...
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  • posthumous book Vie et mort d'Émile Ajar. Gary also published as Shatan Bogat, René Deville and Fosco Sinibaldi, as well under his birth name Roman Kacew. In...
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    Bertrand 1915 René Benjamin 1916 Henri Barbusse 1917 Henry Malherbe 1918 Georges Duhamel 1919 Marcel Proust 1920 Ernest Pérochon 1921 René Maran 1922 Henri...
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    Bertrand 1915 René Benjamin 1916 Henri Barbusse 1917 Henry Malherbe 1918 Georges Duhamel 1919 Marcel Proust 1920 Ernest Pérochon 1921 René Maran 1922 Henri...
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