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André Chamson
André Chamson (1900–1983) was a French novelist and archivist who directed the Louvre's 1940 evacuation, led the Archives de France, and joined the Académie française.
Boris Vian
Boris Vian was a French novelist, jazz trumpeter, and songwriter, author of L'Écume des jours (1947) and, as Vernon Sullivan, J'irai cracher sur vos tombes.
Charles Braibant
Charles Braibant (1889–1976) was a French archivist and novelist who directed the Archives de France from 1948 to 1959 and won the 1933 Prix Renaudot for his novel Le roi dort.
Charles Ferdinand Ramuz
Charles Ferdinand Ramuz (1878–1947) was a Swiss French-language novelist from Lausanne, counted among the greatest French-speaking Swiss writers, known for L'Histoire du soldat and Derborence.
Charles Plisnier
Charles Plisnier (1896–1952) was a Belgian francophone novelist, poet, and lawyer who in 1937 became the first writer without French nationality to win the Prix Goncourt.
Édouard Estaunié
Édouard Estaunié (1862–1942) was a French novelist and telecommunications engineer who rose to inspecteur général des Télégraphes, wrote twelve novels on the hidden inner life, and was elected to the Académie française in 1923.
François Mauriac
François Mauriac (1885–1970) was a French novelist, journalist, and member of the Académie française who won the 1952 Nobel Prize in Literature for novels of sin and grace set around Bordeaux.
Franz Hellens
Franz Hellens, pen name of Frédéric Van Ermengem (1881–1972), was a Belgian novelist and poet who wrote in French, founded the review Le Disque vert, and developed fantastic realism.
Georges Duhamel (author)
Georges Duhamel (1884–1966) was a French physician-turned-writer and frontline surgeon of World War I whose novel cycles Vie et aventures de Salavin and Chronique des Pasquier made him one of the most widely read French authors.
Henri Bosco
Henri Bosco (1888–1976) was a French novelist whose Provençal novels include Malicroix and the school classic L'Enfant et la rivière; he won the 1945 Prix Renaudot.
Jean Giono
Jean Giono (1895–1970) was a French novelist and pacifist from Manosque in Provence, known for the Pan trilogy, the Hussard cycle, and "The Man Who Planted Trees."
Jean Schlumberger (writer)
Jean Schlumberger (1877–1968) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright who co-founded La Nouvelle Revue Française with André Gide in 1908 and ran it from 1909 to 1914.
Jules Romains
Jules Romains, pen name of Louis Farigoule, was a French writer who founded Unanimism and wrote the play Knock and the 27-volume novel Les Hommes de bonne volonté.
Julien Green
Julien Green (1900–1998) was a French-language novelist, diarist, and playwright of American parents, and in 1971 became the first academician never to have held French nationality.
Marcel Barrière
Marcel Barrière (1860–1954) was a French man of letters, historian, and former cavalry officer, nominated for the 1902 Nobel Prize in Literature and awarded two Académie française prizes.
Marcel Jouhandeau
Marcel Jouhandeau (1888–1979) was a French novelist, essayist, and diarist who wrote more than a hundred books, including the Chaminadour cycle set in his native Guéret.
Marthe Bibesco
Marthe Bibesco, born Princess Marthe Lahovary, was a Franco-Romanian aristocratic writer who chronicled European royalty in French and won the French Academy Grand Prize in 1954.
Paul Nizan
Paul Nizan (Paul-Yves Nizan) was a French writer and philosopher, a friend of Sartre, who broke with the Communist Party in 1939 and died at Dunkirk in 1940.
Paul Vialar
Paul Vialar (1898–1996) was a French novelist and short-story writer, author of roughly eighty works, best known for the hunting novel La Grande Meute (1943).
Raymond Queneau
Raymond Queneau, a French poet, novelist, and editor, co-founded the Oulipo workshop for experimental writing in 1960 and was known for Zazie dans le métro and Exercices de style.
Raymond Radiguet
Raymond Radiguet was a French writer who died of typhoid fever at 20 in 1923, leaving the novels Le Diable au corps and Le Bal du comte d'Orgel.
René Béhaine
René Béhaine, pseudonym of René Béhenne (1880–1966), was a French novelist who spent over fifty years writing Histoire d'une société, a sixteen-volume study of provincial bourgeois life, winning literary prizes but remaining little known.
René Maran
René Maran (1887–1960) was a French writer and colonial administrator who in 1921 became the first Black writer to win the Prix Goncourt, for his novel Batouala.
Roger Martin du Gard
Roger Martin du Gard (1881–1958) was a French novelist who won the 1937 Nobel Prize in Literature for Les Thibault, a cycle about two brothers before World War I.
Romain Rolland
Romain Rolland (1866–1944) was a French novelist, dramatist, and musicologist who won the 1915 Nobel Prize in Literature, known for the ten-volume novel Jean-Christophe and his wartime pacifist writings.
Valery Larbaud
Valery Larbaud was a French writer, critic, and translator, born and died in Vichy, who made Joyce known in France and wrote under the pseudonym A. O. Barnabooth.