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Claude Simon, Malagasy-French novelist and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2005)
Claude Eugène Henri Simon was a French novelist and recipient of the 1985 Nobel Prize in Literature. At the same time, he completed his first novel, Le Tricheur ("The Cheat", published in 1946), which he had started to write before the war. Claude Simon published around 20 books written in a dense, autobiographical style.
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Claude Simon was born in 1913. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.
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| Measure | 1913 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| Postage stamp | $0.02 | $0.73 |
| Population | 96.0M | 341 million |
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