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J.M.G. Le Clézio (born 1940), Nobel Prize in Literature, 2008; Annie Ernaux (born 1940), Nobel Prize in Literature, 2022; Marie-Reine de Jaham (born 1940) Patrick Modiano (born 1945), Nobel Prize in Literature, 2014; Daniel Maximin (born 1947) Raphaël Confiant (born 1951) Carole Achache (1952–2016) Kama Sywor Kamanda(born 1952) Patrick ...
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 ...
20th-century French literature is literature written in French from 1900 to 1999. For literature made after 1999, see the article Contemporary French literature. Many of the developments in French literature in this period parallel changes in the visual arts. For more on this, see French art of the 20th century.
His most famous painting is The Romans in their Decadence (1847), an enormous canvas, almost five meters by eight meters, crowded with scenes of decadence. He was a teacher at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, and, like Gleyre, he taught a number of famous later painters, including Édouard Manet, Henri Fantin-Latour, and Pierre Puvis de Chavannes. In ...
The 1878 Pornokratès by Belgian artist Félicien Rops. The Decadent movement (from the French décadence, lit. ' decay ') was a late 19th-century artistic and literary movement, centered in Western Europe, that followed an aesthetic ideology of excess and artificiality.
Chronological list of French language authors (regardless of nationality), by date of birth. For an alphabetical list of writers of French nationality (broken down by genre), see French writers category .
Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) was a satirist for their cause (in his Lettres provinciales (1656–57)), but his greatest moral and religious work was his unfinished and fragmentary collection of thoughts justifying the Christian religion named Pensées (Thoughts) (the most famous section being his discussion of the "pari" or "wager" on the ...
This is a category of writers of French nationality. The main subcategories are Category:French novelists, Category:French dramatists and playwrights, Category:French poets and Category:French non-fiction writers (the latter being itself the parent of a number of sizable categories). If they wrote in French but were not nationals of France then ...