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Nobel laureate Francois Mauriac Dies at 84
Paris AP Francois Mauriac famed French Catholic author and social critic who won the 1952 Nobel Prize for literature died at 84 after failing to recover from a fall in April that fractured his shoulder. He wrote more than 100 books and his Le Figaro columns covered politics and life. He joined the French Academy at age 48.
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