He published a series of personal memoirs and a biography of Charles de Gaulle. He was awarded the Grand Cross of the Légion d'honneur in 1958. In 1952, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature "for the deep spiritual insight and the artistic intensity with which he has in his novels penetrated the drama of human life".
Mauriac was opposed to French rule in Vietnam, and strongly condemned the use of torture by the French army in Algeria. The quarrel was exacerbated by the release of the film adaptation of Peyrefitte's Les Amitiés Particulières, and culminated in a virulent open letter by Peyrefitte in which he accused Mauriac of homosexual tendencies and called him a Tartuffe, hypocrite. Mauriac threatened to resign from the paper he was working with at the time ( L'Express) if they did not stop carrying advertisements for Peyrefitte's books. Mauriac also had a bitter public dispute with Roger Peyrefitte, who criticised the Vatican in books such as Les Clés de saint Pierre (1953). Despite having been viciously criticised by Robert Brasillach, he campaigned against his execution. Mauriac also doubted that justice would be impartial or dispassionate, given the emotional turmoil of the Liberation. Camus said newly liberated France should purge all Nazi collaborator elements, but Mauriac warned that such disputes should be set aside in the interests of national reconciliation. At that time, Camus edited the Resistance paper Combat (thereafter an overt daily, until 1947), while Mauriac wrote a column for Le Figaro. Mauriac had a bitter dispute with Albert Camus immediately following the Liberation of France. He was the only member of the Académie française to publish a Resistance text with the Editions de Minuit. After the fall of France to the Axis during the Second World War, he briefly supported the collaborationist régime of Marshal Pétain, but joined the Resistance as early as December 1941. Ī former Action française supporter, he turned to the left during the Spanish Civil War, criticizing the Catholic Church for its support of Franco. On 1 June 1933, he was elected a member of the Académie française, succeeding Eugène Brieux. He studied literature at the University of Bordeaux, graduating in 1905, after which he moved to Paris to prepare for postgraduate study at the École des Chartes. He was a life-long Catholic.įrançois Charles Mauriac was born in Bordeaux, France. Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie françaiseįrançois Charles Mauriac ( French pronunciation: , Occitan: Francés Carles Mauriac 11 October 1885 – 1 September 1970) was a French novelist, dramatist, critic, poet, and journalist, a member of the Académie française (from 1933), and laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1952). Novelist, dramatist, critic, poet, journalist
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