Henri-Louis Bergson was a French philosopher who was influential in the traditions of analytic philosophy and continental philosophy, especially during the first half of the 20th century until the Second World War, but also after 1966 when Gilles Deleuze published Le Bergsonisme. The Nobel Prize in Literature 1927, announced November 13, 1928. Henri Bergson, “in recognition of his rich and vitalizing ideas and the brilliant skill with which they have been presented”. Henri Bergson: born 1859, Paris, France. Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).