Roger Martin du Gard

Roger Martin du Gard (1881–1958) was a French novelist whose The Thibaults, a family saga set against the upheavals before World War I, won the 1937 Nobel Prize in Literature.

The Thibaults: A multi-volume novel sequence by Roger Martin du Gard tracing the Thibault family amid French society and the approach of World War I. This is the work that defines Martin du Gard’s reputation and earned his Nobel Prize.
École des Chartes: A French grande école founded in 1821 to train archivists, paleographers, and historians of written records. His historical training there strengthened the archival precision evident in his fiction.
Roger Martin du Gard bibliography: A record of the novels, plays, and other writings published by Roger Martin du Gard. The bibliography traces a career extending well beyond the novel sequence that made him famous.
1937 Nobel Prize in Literature: The Nobel Prize in Literature awarded to Roger Martin du Gard in 1937. The award brought international recognition to the author of The Thibaults.
Jean Barois: A 1913 novel by Roger Martin du Gard about a Catholic upbringing, religious doubt, and the Dreyfus Affair. Its documentary techniques and political setting anticipate concerns developed in his later fiction.
Naturalism (literature): A literary movement that applies deterministic and observational methods to portray people shaped by heredity and environment. Martin du Gard’s realist attention to social conditions grew from naturalist practice.
Nobel Prize in Literature: An annual international award recognizing an author’s body of work in literature. Martin du Gard received the 1937 prize for the artistic force and truth of his fiction.
The Thibaults (television series): A French television adaptation of Roger Martin du Gard’s novel sequence The Thibaults. The adaptation carried the family saga to audiences beyond the printed novels.
The Dreyfus Affair: A political scandal in France in which Jewish army officer Alfred Dreyfus was wrongly convicted of treason in 1894. The affair forms a central historical backdrop to Jean Barois and Martin du Gard’s political world.
André Gide: A French writer whose novels, criticism, and diaries made him a major figure in twentieth-century literature. Gide’s friendship and literary judgment helped Martin du Gard during the development of his major work.

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