François Charles Mauriac was a French novelist, dramatist, critic, poet, and journalist, a member of the Académie française, and laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1952). He was awarded the Grand Cross of the Légion d'honneur in 1958. The Nobel Prize in Literature 1952, announced November 6, 1952. François Mauriac, “for the deep spiritual insight and the artistic intensity with which he has in his novels penetrated the drama of human life”. François Mauriac: born 1885, Bordeaux, France. Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).