Word: renaudot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Author. Jean Malaquais is a short, tense French socialist. He is the author of a novel, Men from Nowhere, which won the Renaudot Prize in Paris, and of an account of his experiences in the French army, War Diary, which André Gide hailed as "an extraordinary document on the collapse of France...
Underground Economist. The Théophraste Renaudot Prize went to David Rousset, for his L'Univers Concentrationnaire, a graphic, harrowing description of life in Nazi concentration camps in France. Rousset was a diligent researcher in TIME'S Paris Bureau before the war. After the occupation, he adopted the somewhat more exciting work of organizing anti-Nazi groups inside the German Army. A spy got into Rousset's organization and all the Germans were executed, but the Gestapo could not find evidence linking Rousset with the plot; he got off with a year and a half in five...