What is André Gide?
[[File:Gide 1920 cropped.jpg|thumb|André Gide]] '''André Paul Guillaume Gide''' (22 November 1869 – 19 February 1951) was a French writer. He won the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] in 1947. Gide was born in Paris into a middle class [[Protestant]] family. During a trip to [[Alegeria]], Gide realized that he was [[gay]]. His first novel ''The Notebooks of Andre Walter'' was published in 1891. Gide met [[Oscar Wilde]] in 1894. In October 1895 Gide married his cousin Madeleine. When Gide was 47 15-year-old [[Marc Allégret]] became his lover. Gide also opposed [[colonialism]] and [[exploitation]] of [[slavery]] in Africa and was interested in [[communism]] and visited [[Soviet Union]], but he expressed critical idea on the totalitarian regime. {{Nobelprize|Literature}} {{Nobel Prize in Literature}} {{Bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Gide, Andre}} [[Category:1869 births]] [[Category:1951 deaths]] [[Category:Anti-communists]] [[Category:French communists]] [[Category:French Nobel Prize winners]] [[Category:Gay men]] [[Category:LGBT Nobel Prize winners]] [[Category:French LGBT writers]] [[Category:Writers from Paris]]