Nobel laureate · birth-card coordinate
Claude Simon's Birth Card: The Queen of Clubs
The Nurturing Leader
A birth card is a calendar coordinate for the month and day. It is not fortune-telling and does not predict a Nobel Prize.
In the record
Claude Eugène Henri Simon (French: [klod simɔ̃]; 10 October 1913 – 6 July 2005) was a French novelist and recipient of the 1985 Nobel Prize in Literature. The birth-card coordinate for October 10 is the Queen of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1985 Literature prize.
Nobel Prize record
- 1985 The Nobel Prize in Literature — who in his novel combines the poet's and the painter's creativeness with a deepened awareness of time in the depiction of the human condition
1985 — The Nobel Prize in Literature
“who in his novel combines the poet's and the painter's creativeness with a deepened awareness of time in the depiction of the human condition”
No one else in this set holds the 1985 Literature prize; Claude Simon appears here as its sole listed laureate. The award was divided; this laureate's listed portion is 1.
116 other Literature laureates in this set carry a birth-card coordinate.
The Queen of Clubs coordinate
Claude Simon's birthday maps to the Queen of Clubs (The Nurturing Leader). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Nobel Prize and not a verdict on Claude Simon. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You teach from what you actually know, without making people earn the right to hear it.
Claude Simon in the public record
Claude Simon was born in Tananarive on the isle of Madagascar. His parents were French, and his father was a career officer who was killed in the First World War. He grew up with his mother and her family in Perpignan in the middle of the wine district of Roussillon. Among his ancestors was a general from the time of the French Revolution. After secondary school at Collège Stanislas in Paris, he took courses in painting at André Lhote's academy. At 21, Simon inherited a small fortune that made him economically independent. In 1935-1936 he made his military service at the 31st cavalry regiment in Lunéville. In 1936 he went to Barcelona and volunteered in the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Claude Simon (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the 3 of Hearts
A card is a calendar coordinate, not a cause. What follows sets one line of the card's own published language beside one sentence of the sourced record, paired by a documented rule. It is a resemblance offered for the reader to weigh — not a claim about Claude Simon, and not a forecast of a Nobel Prize.
Cards in Claude Simon's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- Q♣ — Birth Card: The Nurturing Leader
- 10♦ — Karma — Environment: The Wealthy Master
- 3♥ — Karma — Displacement: The Creative Heart
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 10♠ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 3♦ — Life Spread — Mars
- A♠ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- 7♥ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 7♦ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 5♠ — Life Spread — Neptune
- J♥ — Life Spread — Pluto
- 9♣ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
Birth card from the month and day. Karma cards are fixed to the birth card. The planetary ruling card comes from the sun sign's ruling planet — the signs with two rulers carry two. The Life Spread is the birth card's fixed row of nine in the Life Spread — the cards that colour each 52-day period for life. Planetary period and long-range cards move year by year and are not shown on a static page.
Emotional depth expressed through creativity
He grew up with his mother and her family in Perpignan in the middle of the wine district of Roussillon.
Paired on relationship and feeling — the domain ♥ governs in this system. Markers in the record: family, mother.
Also on the record
- This experience as well as those from the Second World War show up in his literary work.
- Simon began writing in 1936.
- In 1937 he travelled extensively through Spain, Germany, the Soviet Union, Italy, Greece, and Turkey.
- Claude Simon was called up by the French army in August 1939, just before the outbreak of the Second World War.
Other laureates with this card
- Adolf Butenandt — 1939 Chemistry
- Ahmed Zewail — 1999 Chemistry
- Akira Suzuki — 2010 Chemistry
- Alphonse Laveran — 1907 Physiology or Medicine
- Anton Zeilinger — 2022 Physics
- Carolyn Bertozzi — 2022 Chemistry
- Dario Fo — 1997 Literature
- Donald J. Cram — 1987 Chemistry
- Dudley R. Herschbach — 1986 Chemistry
- Eduard Buchner — 1907 Chemistry
- Edward B. Lewis — 1995 Physiology or Medicine
- Franco Modigliani — 1985 Economic Sciences
- 32 more laureates share this card.
FAQ
- What is Claude Simon's birth card?
- The Queen of Clubs. October 10 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.
- Does a birth card predict a Nobel Prize?
- No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast prizes, character, or fate.
- Where do Claude Simon's dates come from?
- Birth date 1913-10-10 is the Nobel Prize API v2.1 day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Year-only Nobel dates and Nobel↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Sources: Nobel Prize API v2.1 (laureate 662) + Wikidata CC0 (Q131549) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Claude Simon). Birth date 1913-10-10 is the Nobel day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).