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Madame de Lafayette (1634–1693), author of La Princesse de Clèves; Alain-René Le Sage (1668–1747) Pierre de Marivaux (1688–1763) Voltaire (1694–1778), philosophe, satirist, playwright, author of Candide; Françoise de Graffigny (1695–1758), author of Lettres d'une Péruvienne; Abbé Prévost (1697–1763), author of Manon Lescaut
Chronological list of French language authors (regardless of nationality), by date of birth. For an alphabetical list of writers of French nationality ...
Alexandre Dumas [a] (born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie, [b] 24 July 1802 – 5 December 1870), [1] [2] also known as Alexandre Dumas père, [c] was a French novelist and playwright. His works have been translated into many languages and he is one of the most widely read French authors.
Victor-Marie Hugo, vicomte Hugo [1] (French: [viktɔʁ maʁi yɡo] ⓘ; 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French Romantic author, poet, essayist, playwright, and politician. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote in a variety of genres and forms.
Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust (/ p r uː s t / PROOST; [1] French: [maʁsɛl pʁust]; 10 July 1871 – 18 November 1922) was a French novelist, literary critic, and essayist who wrote the monumental novel À la recherche du temps perdu (in French – translated in English as Remembrance of Things Past and more recently as In Search of Lost Time) which was published in seven ...
French contemporary literature workshop with Marc Avelot, Philippe Binant, Bernard Magné, Claudette Oriol-Boyer, Jean Ricardou, Cerisy (France), 1980. For most of the 20th century, French authors had more Literature Nobel Prizes than those of any other nation. [6] The following French or French language authors have won a Nobel Prize in ...
Anne de Seguier, 16th-century French poet and salon-holder; Nathalie Sarraute (1900–1999), Russian-born French novelist, who pioneered the nouveau roman; Albertine Sarrazin (1937–1967), French-Algerian novelist, essayist, and poet; Johanna Schipper (known as "Johanna"; born 1967), Taiwanese-born French comics artist and short-story writer
François Rabelais (UK: / ˈ r æ b ə l eɪ / RAB-ə-lay, US: / ˌ r æ b ə ˈ l eɪ /- LAY; [2] [3] French: [fʁɑ̃swa ʁablɛ]; born between 1483 and 1494; died 1553) was a French writer who has been called the first great French prose author. [4]