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Gide

[zheed]
–noun
An⋅dré (Paul Guil⋅laume) [ahn-drey pawl gee-yohm] , 1869–1951, French novelist, essayist, poet, and critic: Nobel prize 1947.
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Gide   (zhēd)   
French writer noted for his diaries and novels, such as The Immoralist (1902) and Lafcadio's Adventures (1914), which examine alienation and the drive for individuality in an often disapproving society. He won the 1947 Nobel Prize for literature.
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