Roger Garaudy
Roger Garaudy | |
|---|---|
| Senator for Seine | |
| In office 26 April 1959 – 31 October 1962 | |
| Member of the National Assembly for Seine | |
| In office 2 January 1956 – 8 December 1958 | |
| Member of the National Assembly for Tarn | |
| In office 21 October 1945 – 4 July 1951 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 17 July 1913 Marseille, France |
| Died | 13 June 2012 (aged 98) Chennevières-sur-Marne, France |
| Political party | French Communist Party (1933–1970) |
| Awards | King Faisal International Prize |
Roger Garaudy (French: [ʁɔʒe gaʁodi]; 17 July 1913 – 13 June 2012) was a French philosopher, French resistance fighter and a communist author. He converted to Islam in 1982. In 1998, he was convicted for several years and fined for Holocaust denial under French law for claiming that the mass slaughter of six million Jews was a "myth".