André Gide

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André Paul Guillaume Gide (Paris, November 22, 1869 — Paris, February 19, 1951) was a French writer who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1947. Coming from a high bourgeois family, he was the founder of the publishing house Gallimard and the magazine Nouvelle Revue Française. Gide was an openly homosexual man and openly advocated for the rights of homosexuals, having written and published, between 1910 and 1924, a book aimed at combating the homophobic prejudices of his time called "Corydon." Rejecting moral and puritanical restrictions in favor of freedom and liberation, his work revolves around the constant pursuit of intellectual honesty: how to be true to oneself, to the point of embracing his homosexuality. Among his most important works are "The Fruits of the Earth," "The Pastoral Symphony," "The Immoralist," and "The Counterfeiters," as well as the most controversial of all: "Corydon."