Romain Rolland Writer

Romain Rolland (French: [ʁɔlɑ̃]; 29 January 1866 – 30 December 1944) was a French dramatist, novelist, essayist, art historian and mystic who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915 "as a tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary production and to the sympathy and love of truth with which he has described different types of human beings".

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Birth date	January 29, 1866
Birth place	Clamecy Nièvre , Nièvre
Nationality	French people
Date of death	December 30, 1944
Place of death	Vézelay

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Career start	1902
Career end	1944
influenced by	Henri Bergson Hermann Hesse Jean-Jacques Rousseau Mahatma Gandhi Grigol Robakidze François Rabelais Ernest Renan Leo Tolstoy Maurice Pottecher