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Portrait image of Claude Simon Photo: Lütfi Özkök

Simon, Claude

Country/Region:
France, Madagascar
Born:
October 10, 1913
Dead:
July 6, 2005
Genres:
Miscellaneous prose, Poetry
Claude Simon was born in Antananarivo, Madagascar, where his father was an officer in the French colonial army. After his father was killed in the First World War, Claude Simon was raised by his mother's family in Salses, near Perpignan. He was educated in Paris, Oxford and Cambridge and then returned to Paris where he enrolled at an art school, the Academie André Lhote, only to discover that he did not want to become a painter.

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