Roger Martin du Gard was a French novelist, winner of the 1937 Nobel Prize in Literature. The Nobel Prize in Literature 1937, announced November 11, 1937. Roger Martin du Gard, “for the artistic power and truth with which he has depicted human conflict as well as some fundamental aspects of contemporary life in his novel-cycle <I>Les Thibault</I>”. Roger Martin du Gard: born 1881, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).