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Mistral, Frédéric, 1830-1914

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Frédéric Mistral
Born: September 8, 1830(1830-09-08)
Died: March 25, 1914 (aged 83)
Occupation: Poet
Nationality: France

Frédéric Mistral (September 8, 1830 – March 25, 1914) was a French poet who led the 19th century revival of Occitan (Provençal) language and literature. He was a key figure in the literary félibrige movement.

He shared the Nobel Prize in literature in 1904 for his contributions in literature and philology. Mistral's father was a well-to-do farmer in the former French province of Provence.

He was born and died in Maillane, Bouches-du-Rhône département, France.

In his honour, the Chilean poet Lucila Godoy Alcayaga took the last name of her pseudonym, Gabriela Mistral.

Statue in Arles
Statue in Arles

Works include

  • Mirèio (1859), source of Charles Gounod's opera Mireille

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Nobel Prize in Literature Laureates
1901-1925

Prudhomme (1901) • Mommsen (1902) • Bjørnson (1903) • F.Mistral / Echegaray (1904) • Sienkiewicz (1905) • Carducci (1906) • Kipling (1907) • Eucken (1908) • Lagerlöf (1909) • Heyse (1910) • Maeterlinck (1911) • Hauptmann (1912) • Tagore (1913) • Rolland (1915) • Heidenstam (1916) • Gjellerup / Pontoppidan (1917) • Spitteler (1919) • Hamsun (1920) • France (1921) • Benavente (1922) • Yeats (1923) • Reymont (1924) • Shaw (1925)
1926-1950

Deledda (1926) • Bergson (1927) • Undset (1928) • Mann (1929) • Lewis (1930) • Karlfeldt (1931) • Galsworthy (1932) • Bunin (1933) • Pirandello (1934) • O'Neill (1936) • Martin du Gard (1937) • Buck (1938) • Sillanpää (1939) • Jensen (1944) • G.Mistral (1945) • Hesse (1946) • Gide (1947) • Eliot (1948) • Faulkner (1949) • Russell (1950) •
1951-1975

Lagerkvist (1951) • Mauriac (1952) • Churchill (1953) • Hemingway (1954) • Laxness (1955) • Jiménez (1956) • Camus (1957) • Pasternak (1958) • Quasimodo (1959) • Perse (1960) • Andrić (1961) • Steinbeck (1962) • Seferis (1963) • Sartre (1964) • Sholokhov (1965) • Agnon / Sachs (1966) • Asturias (1967) • Kawabata (1968) • Beckett (1969) • Solzhenitsyn (1970) • Neruda (1971) • Böll (1972) • White (1973) • Johnson / Martinson (1974) • Montale (1975)
1976-2000

Bellow (1976) • Aleixandre (1977) • Singer (1978) • Elytis (1979) • Miłosz (1980) • Canetti (1981) • Márquez (1982) • Golding (1983) • Seifert (1984) • Simon (1985) • Soyinka (1986) • Brodsky (1987) • Mahfouz (1988) • Cela (1989) • Paz (1990) • Gordimer (1991) • Walcott (1992) • Morrison (1993) • Oe (1994) • Heaney (1995) • Szymborska (1996) • Fo (1997) • Saramago (1998) • Grass (1999) • Gao (2000)
2001-2025

Naipaul (2001) • Kertész (2002) • Coetzee (2003) • Jelinek (2004) • Pinter (2005) • Pamuk (2006)

Complete roster | (1901–1925) | (1926–1950) | (1951–1975) | (1976-2000) | (2001–2025)

This biographical information was gathered from the Frédéric_Mistral page, courtesy of the Wikipedia project.

Books

Mes Origines; Mémoires Et Récits De Frédéric Mistral

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