Nobel Prize in Literature 1937
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Roger Martin du Gard
Prize share: 1/1
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1937 was awarded to 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 Les Thibault"
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