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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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Flaubert's lean and precise writing style has had a large influence on 20th-century writers such as Franz Kafka and J. M. Coetzee. As Vladimir Nabokov discussed in his famous lecture series: [29] The greatest literary influence upon Kafka was Flaubert's. Flaubert who loathed pretty-pretty prose would have applauded Kafka's attitude towards his ...
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 ...