The famous French novelist and critic Claude Simon’s major novels include ‘The Wind’, ‘The Grass’, and ‘The Flanders Road’. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1985.
Claude Simon was born on 10th October 1913 in Madagascar. The son of a cavalry officer who was killed in World War I, Simon was raised by his mother in Perpignan, France. After secondary school at College Stanislas in Paris, and brief sojourns at Oxford and Cambridge, he took courses in painting at the Andre Lhote Academy. He then travelled extensively through Spain, Germany, the Soviet Union, Italy and Greece. Later, he fought in World War II, and later earned a living producing wine.
Simon is often identified with the French literary movement that emerged during the 1950s. War is a constant and central theme of most of his works. The University of East Anglia awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1973. Claude Simon died on 6th July, 2005, France.
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