Nobel laureate

Roger Martin du Gard — Nobel Prize in Literature 1937

“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 <I>Les Thibault</I>”

Prize motivation

“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 <I>Les Thibault</I>”

The Swedish Academy awarded Roger Martin du Gard the 1937 Nobel Prize in Literature 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 <I>Les Thibault</I>.

Sources & data

  • Nobel Prize API (CC0).