Claude Simon, winner 1985 Nobel Prize for literature, dies

search-engines-web.com notes Nobel laureate Claude Simon, a pioneer of the experimental “new novel” style of the late 1950s and early 1960s, has died. He was 91. His Nobel Biography has more on his life. The Swedish Academy that awarded Simon the 1985 Nobel Prize in literature cited the novel Les Georgiques (The Georgics ) as perhaps his most important work. The 1981 novel depicts Simon’s experience with the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War.

July 11, 2005 by Uncategorized 0

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