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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 .
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 ...
Despite limitations on press freedom, the Restoration was an extraordinary rich period for French literature. Paris editors published the first works of some of France's most famous writers. Honoré de Balzac moved to Paris in 1814, studied at the University of Paris, wrote his first play in 1820, and published his first novel, Les Chouans, in ...
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 ...
The monumental work of the philosophes was the Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, the famous encyclopedia of Diderot and d'Alembert, published in thirty-five volumes, with texts and illustration, from 1750 until 1772, accompanied by a large variety of essays, speeches, dialogues and interviews on all ...
In the late 1930s, the works of Hemingway, Faulkner and Dos Passos came to be translated into French, and their prose style had a profound impact on the work of writers like Jean-Paul Sartre, André Malraux and Albert Camus.
A History of Old French Literature from the Origins to 1300. New York: F.S. Crofts, 1938. (Although from 1938, this text is still considered a thorough overview of the literature.) Chanson de geste: (in English) Crosland, Jesse. The Old French Epic. New York: Haskell House, 1951. Roman: (in English) Kelly, Douglas. Medieval French Romance ...