André Gide

André Paul Guillaume Gide was a French writer who won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1947. He won the Nobel Prize, according to Nobel Prize website, "for his comprehensive and artistically significant writings, in which human problems and conditions have been presented with a fearless love of truth and keen psychological insight". Gide's career was very diversified. He was part of anticolonialism, symbolist, and modernist movement while being a social activist being a advocate of gay rights.