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Jules Romains
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French writer (1885-1972)
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Jules Romains, born Louis Henri Jean Farigoule in 1885 in Saint-Julien-Chapteuil, was a French playwright, writer, and poet. He was educated at the Lycée Condorcet and the École Normale Supérieure. Associated with the Unanimism movement, his notable works include *Men of Good Will* and *Knock*. He was a member of the Académie Française, PEN International, and the Abbaye de Créteil, and served as president.
Romains received the Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour, the Concours général, and the Grand Prize for the Best Novels of the Half-Century. He was also nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. He died in the 13th arrondissement of Paris in 1972 and is buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1885
- Died
- 1972
- Works
- 524
Top works
- Aftermath
- Manuel de déification
- Men of good will
- Dr.Knock
- Le mariage de Le Trouhadec
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- France
- Active from
- 1885
- Active to
- 1972
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 62
- Total plays
- 204
Tags
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Food Security: The Challenge of Feeding 9 Billion People
· 2010 · cited 9,393x
- The repertoire of mutational signatures in human cancer
· 2020 · cited 3,336x
- The Dorsoventral Regulatory Gene Cassette spätzle/Toll/cactus Controls the Potent Antifungal Response in Drosophila Adults
· 1996 · cited 3,054x
- The Host Defense of <i>Drosophila melanogaster</i>
· 2007 · cited 3,031x
- Pan-cancer analysis of whole genomes
· 2020 · cited 2,828x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- Louis Henri Jean Farigoule , ( 1885-08-26 ) 26 August 1885, Saint-Julien-Chapteuil in the Haute-Loire
- Died
- 14 August 1972 (1972-08-14) (aged 86), Paris
- Occupation
- Poet and writer
- Language
- French
- Education
- lycée Condorcet , École normale supérieure
- Literary movement
- Unanimism
- Notable awards
- elected to the Académie française
- Preceded by
- H. G. Wells
- Succeeded by
- Wartime International Presidential Committee (1941–47)
via Wikipedia infobox
Works in European collections
1 object attributed to Jules Romains, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Jules Romains (born Louis Henri Jean Farigoule; 26 August 1885 – 14 August 1972) was a French poet and writer and the founder of the Unanimism literary movement. His works include the play Knock ou le Triomphe de la médecine, and a cycle of works called Les Hommes de bonne volonté (Men of Good Will). Sinclair Lewis called him one of the six best novelists in the world.
He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature sixteen times.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jules Romains” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.