Marcel Pagnol

Biography

Marcel Paul Pagnol was a French novelist, playwright, and filmmaker. Regarded as an auteur, in 1946, he became the first filmmaker elected to the Académie française. Pagnol is generally regarded as one of France's greatest 20th-century writers and is notable for his mastery of multiple literary genres —memoir, novel, theatre and film.

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Awards & recognition

• ★Great Gold medal of the Société d'Encouragement au Progrès · 1961
• ★Commander of the French Order of Academic Palms
• ★Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres
• ★Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour
• ☆Nobel Prize in Literature · 1966 · nominated