Mauriac

Mau·riac  (môr-äk, môr-yäk), François 1885-1970.

French writer many of whose novels, notably Thérèse Desqueyroux (1927), are psychological studies of temptation, sin, and redemption in the lives of bourgeois characters. He won the 1952 Nobel Prize for literature.

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Mauriac (French) [mɔrjak]

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(Biographies / Mauriac, François (1885-1970) M, French, WRITING: novelist) François (frɑ̃swa). 1885-1970, French novelist, noted esp for his psychological studies of the conflict between religious belief and human desire. His works include Le désert de l'amour (1925), Thérèse Desqueyroux (1927), and Le nœud de vipères (1932): Nobel prize for literature 1952

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Mauriac - French novelist who wrote about the conflict between desire and religious belief (1885-1970) Francois Charles Mauriac, Francois Mauriac