Claude Simon, the last French writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, has died at the age of 91. He won the Nobel in 1985 He was hailed as a novelist who “incarnates the renewal of French literature in the post-war period .Rejection of conventions, or rather, man’s fundamental originality, are at the heart of his work, the source of his creation.” His books included “The Wind” (1957), and “The Flanders Road” (1960).