Pierre-Henri Simon (16 January 1903, Saint-Fort-sur-Gironde – 20 September 1972) was a French

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, literary historian,

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, and literary critic. He won the

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in 1963

Works

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* Destins de la personne, 1935 * L'Église et la Révolution sociale, 1938 * L'homme en procès: Malraux, Sartre, Camus, Saint-Exupéry (1950) * L'Europe a-t-elle une conscience ?, 1953 * Contre la torture, 1957 ( Pamphlet) * Ce que je crois, 1966

Novels

* Les Valentin, 1931 * L'Affût, 1946 * Les Raisins verts, 1950 * Celle qui est née un dimanche, 1952 * Les Hommes ne veulent pas mourir, 1953 * Portrait d'un officier, 1958 * Le Somnambule, 1960 * Histoire d'un bonheur, 1965 * Pour un garçon de vingt ans, 1967 * Questions aux savants, 1969 * La Sagesse du soir, 1971 * L'Homme et sa Vérité, 1972

Literary criticism

* Georges Duhamel ou le Bourgeois sauvé, 1947 * Mauriac par lui-même, 1953 * Histoire de la Littérature française du XXe siècle, 1956 * Théâtre et Destin, 1959 * Présence de Camus, 1961 * Le Domaine héroïque des lettres françaises, 1963

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Works

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Novels

Literary criticism

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