Camus said newly liberated France should purge all Nazi collaborator elements, but Mauriac warned that such disputes should be set aside in the interests of national reconciliation. At that time, Camus edited the resistance paper (now an overt daily) Combat while Mauriac wrote a column for Le Figaro. Mauriac also had a bitter dispute with Albert Camus immediately following the liberation of France in World War II. The quarrel was exacerbated by the release of the film adaptation of Peyrefitte's Les Amitiés Particulières and culminated in a virulent open letter by Peyrefitte in which he accused Mauriac of homosexual tendencies and called him a Tartuffe.
Mauriac threatened to resign from the paper he was working with at the time ( L'Express) if they did not stop carrying advertisements for Peyrefitte's books. Mauriac had a bitter public dispute with Roger Peyrefitte, who criticised the Vatican in books such as Les Clés de saint Pierre (1953).
He also encouraged Elie Wiesel to write about his experiences as a Jew during the Holocaust, and wrote a foreword in Elie Wiesel's book, Night. Mauriac's complete works were published in twelve volumes between 19. He was awarded the Grand Cross of the Légion d'honneur in 1958. In 1952, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature "for the deep spiritual insight and the artistic intensity with which he has in his novels penetrated the drama of human life". On 1 June 1933 he was elected a member of the Académie française, succeeding Eugène Brieux. He also published a series of personal memoirs and a biography of Charles de Gaulle. He was opposed to the rule in Vietnam, and strongly condemned the use of torture by the French army in Algeria. He studied literature at the University of Bordeaux, graduating in 1905, after which he moved to Paris to prepare for postgraduate study at the École des Chartes. He was born François Charles Mauriac in Bordeaux, France.
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