Georges Duhamel

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Georges Duhamel
Born	(1884-06-30)30 June 1884 Paris, France
Died	13 April 1966(1966-04-13) (aged 81) Valmondois, France
Children	Antoine Duhamel
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Georges Duhamel (/ˌdjuːəˈmɛl/;^[1] French: [dy.amɛl]; 30 June 1884 – 13 April 1966) was a French author, born in Paris. Duhamel trained as a doctor, and during World War I was attached to the French Army. In 1920, he published Confession de minuit, the first of a series featuring the anti-hero Salavin. In 1935, he was elected as a member of the Académie française. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature twenty-seven times.^[2] He was also the father of the musicologist and composer Antoine Duhamel.