Claude Eugène Henri Simon was a French novelist and recipient of the 1985 Nobel Prize in Literature. The Nobel Prize in Literature 1985, announced November 27, 1985. Claude Simon, “who in his novel combines the poet's and the painter's creativeness with a deepened awareness of time in the depiction of the human condition”. Claude Simon: born 1913, Tananarive (now Antananarivo), Madagascar. Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).