Romain Rolland 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". The Nobel Prize in Literature 1915, announced November 9, 1916. Romain Rolland, “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”. Romain Rolland: born 1866, Clamecy, France. Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).