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Romain Rolland
Born (1866-01-29)29 January 1866
Clamecy, France
Died 30 December 1944(1944-12-30) (aged 78)
Vézelay
Occupation Dramatist, essayist, Art historian, novelist, musicologist
Period 1902–1944
Notable award(s) Nobel Prize in Literature
1915
Spouse(s) Marie Romain Rolland, m. 1934-1944; Clothilde Bréal m. 1892-1901

Romain Rolland (29 November 1866, Clamecy – 30 December 1944, Vézelay) was a French writer. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1915.

Work

Novels and novellas

  • Jean-Christophe
  • Colas Breugnon
  • Pierre et Luce
  • Clerambault, histoire d'une conscience libre pendant la guerre
  • L'âme enchantée

Dramas

  • Orsino
  • Les baglioni
  • Caligula
  • Le Siège de Mantoue
  • Jeanne de Piennes
  • Les tragédies de la foi
  • Le Théâtre de la Révolution
  • Le temps viendra
  • La Montespan
  • Les Trois amoureuses
  • Empédocle
  • Liluli

Images for kids

  • The Soviet Union 1966 CPA 3311 stamp (Birth Centenary French Writer Romain Rolland (1866-1944) (after Anatoly Yar-Kravchenko) and Scene from 'Jean-Christophe')

    Stamp from the USSR which commemorates the 100th anniversary of Romain Rolland's birth in 1966.

  • Romain Rolland au balcon, Meurisse, 1914 retouche

    Romain Rolland in 1914, on the balcony of his home

  • Piscator Programmzettel 1922

    Programme sheet for Piscator's 1922 production of Rolland's drama The Time Will Come (1903), at the Central-Theater in Berlin.


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