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    Francis de Miomandre (22 May 1880, in Tours – 1 August 1959, in Saint-Brieuc) was a French novelist and well-known translator from Spanish into French...
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    Letters: Writing Simone de Beauvoir. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press. 2020. ISBN 9781501750540. Francis, Claude. Simone de Beauvoir: A Life, A...
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    Jean Tharaud 1907 Émile Moselly 1908 Francis de Miomandre 1909 Marius-Ary Leblond 1910 Louis Pergaud 1911 Alphonse de Châteaubriant 1912 André Savignon 1913...
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    2014 Prix Erckmann-Chatrian winner Aux animaux la guerre 2015 Prix Mystère de la critique winner Aux animaux la guerre 2015 Festival du goéland masqué [fr]...
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    Out. Prix de Mai 1958 for Moderato cantabile. Prix de la Tribune de Paris 1962 for L'Après-midi de Monsieur Andesmas. Sélection à la Mostra de Venise 1972...
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    and the rise of the middle classes, that occurred in France during the fin de siècle. Proust's father, Adrien Proust, was a prominent French pathologist...
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  • hearing General de Gaulle's radio appeal, he decided to go to England. After failed attempts, he flew to Algiers from Saint-Laurent-de-la-Salanque in a...
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    Miguel Ángel Asturias (category Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala alumni)
     675–705. Valéry, Paul (1957). "Carta de Paul Valéry a Francis de Miomandre". In Miguel Ángel Asturias (ed.). Leyendas de Guatemala. Buenos Aires: Losada....
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    starting to gain fame in 1994 with his debut novel Extension du domaine de la lutte, published by Maurice Nadeau (translated in English by Paul Hammond...
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    the U.S. as The Island (1964) Moncada, premier combat de Fidel Castro (1965) Un animal doué de raison (1967) - Published in the U.S. as The Day of the...
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