Romain Rolland
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Romain Rolland was a French writer and intellectual who lived from 1866 to 1944 and became known for his novels, essays, and pacifist activism during a turbulent period of European history. His works explored themes of individual conscience and social responsibility, and he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1915, reflecting his significant influence on European thought and culture.
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Romain Rolland ( French: [ʁɔmɛ̃ ʁɔlɑ̃]; 29 January 1866 – 30 December 1944) was a French dramatist, novelist, essayist, art historian and mystic who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915 "as a tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary production and to the sympathy and love of truth with which he has described different types of human beings".
He was an admirer of Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore, wrote a still relevant biography of Gandhi, and is also noted for his correspondence with numerous writers and thinkers across the globe including Maxim Gorki, Rabindranath Tagore and Sigmund Freud.
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1866 births1944 deaths19th-century French dramatists and playwrights19th-century French novelists20th-century French dramatists and playwrights20th-century French novelistsÉcole normale supérieure (Paris) alumniFrench expatriates in the Soviet UnionFrench male novelistsFrench Nobel laureatesFrench pacifistsGandhians