Georges André Malraux was a French novelist, member of the French Resistance, art theorist, and minister of cultural affairs. Malraux's novel La Condition Humaine (Man's Fate) (1933) is set during the 1927 Shanghai uprising and won the Prix Goncourt; L'Espoir (Man's Hope, 1937) arose from his experiences during the Spanish Civil War. After the Second World War he abandoned fiction and wrote several works on art history, collected as La Psychologie de l'Art (The Voices of Silence, 1953). He was appointed by President Charles de Gaulle as information minister (1945–46) and subsequently as France's first cultural affairs minister during de Gaulle's presidency (1959–1969).
André Malraux
novelist, art theorist, and statesman
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French novelist, art theorist, and statesman
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André Malraux, French novelist, art theorist, and statesman, known for french novelist, art theorist, and statesman, died on 1976-11-23.
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- André Malraux was born on 1901-11-23 (French).
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- André Malraux died on 1976-01-01.