Biography of french writers

List of French novelists

This is a list of novelists from France. Novelists in this list should be notable in some way, and have Wikipedia articles on them.

See also French novelists Category Index.

Born before

  • Antoine de la Sale (/61)
  • Philippe Camus (writer) (fl. 15th century)
  • Sébastien Mamerot (between c. and –)
  • Dr. François Rabelais (between and –)
  • François de Belleforest (–1 January )
  • François Béroalde de Verville (27 April – 19–26 October )
  • Nicolas de Montreux (c. –)
  • Marie de Gournay (–)
  • Honoré d'Urfé (–)
  • Antoine de Nervèze (c. after )
  • François du Souhait (between and –)
  • Jean Ogier de Gombauld (–)
  • Charles Sorel (c. –)
  • Madeleine de Scudéry (–)
  • Madame de Lafayette (–), author of La Princesse de Clèves
  • Alain-René Le Sage (–)
  • Pierre de Marivaux (–)
  • Voltaire (–), philosophe, satirist, playwright, author of Candide
  • Françoise de Graffigny (–), author of Lettres d'une Péruvienne
  • Abbé Prévost (–), author of Manon Lescaut
  • Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon (–)
  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau (–), philosophe, author of Julie, or the New Heloise
  • Denis Diderot (–), philosophe, author of Rameau's Nephew
  • Marie Jeanne Riccoboni (–)
  • Restif de la Bretonne (–)
  • Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (–), author of Paul et Virginie
  • Marquis de Sade (–), author of "Dialogue Between a Priest and a Dying Man", Justine, The Days of Sodom, Philosophy in the Bedroom, and Juliette
  • Choderlos de Laclos (–), author of Les Liaisons dangereuses
  • Anne Louise Germaine de Staël (–)
  • Benjamin Constant (–), author of Adolphe
  • Sophie de Renneville (–), writer, editor, journalist
  • François-René de Chateaubriand (–), author of Atala and René
  • Étienne Pivert de Senancour (–)
  • Charles Nodier (–)
  • Fanny Tercy (–), author of Pierre et Marcellin; sister-in-law of Charles Nodier
  • Stendhal (–), author of The Red and the Black, considered by some to be the first modern novel, and The Charterhouse of Parma
  • Élise Voïart, (–), writer and translator
  • Charles Paul de Kock (–)
  • Antoinette Henriette Clémence Robert (–)
  • Charles Dezobry (–), historian and historical novelist
  • Honoré de Balzac (–), author of La Comédie Humaine, a series of novels presenting a full picture of France in the early 19th century

Born –

  • Alexandre Dumas, père (–), author of The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers
  • Victor Hugo (–), author of The Hunchback of Notre-Dame and Les Misérables
  • Prosper Mérimée (–), author of Carmen
  • Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (–)
  • George Sand (–), pseudonym of Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin, Baroness Dudevant
  • Eugène Sue (–)
  • Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly (–)
  • Alfred de Musset (–)
  • Théophile Gautier (–)
  • Gustave Flaubert (–), author of Madame Bovary and Sentimental Education
  • Edmond de Goncourt (–)
  • Henri Murger (–), author of Scènes de la vie de bohème
  • Alexandre Dumas, fils (–), author of La Dame aux camélias
  • Edmond About (–)
  • Jules Verne (–), writer of techno-thrillers like Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas, and founding father of science fiction
  • Pauline Cassin Caro (/34/35 – ), novelist
  • Jules de Goncourt (–)
  • Hector Malot (–)
  • Émile Gaboriau (–), pioneer of modern detective fiction
  • Jules Vallès (–)
  • Eugène Le Roy (–)
  • Alphonse Daudet (–)
  • Émile Zola (–), naturalist, author of Germinal and Nana
  • Anatole France (–)
  • Léon Bloy (–)
  • Brada (–)
  • Joris-Karl Huysmans (–), author of À rebours and Là-bas
  • Guy de Maupassant (–)
  • Pierre Loti (–)
  • Élémir Bourges (–)
  • Paul Bourget (–)
  • René Bazin (–)
  • Hermine Lecomte du Noüy (–)
  • Adolphe Chenevière (–19??)
  • Claude Ferval (–)
  • Jean Bertheroy (–)
  • Jean de La Brète (–)
  • Maurice Barrès (–)
  • Henri Ardel (–)
  • Henri de Régnier (–)
  • Jules Renard (–)
  • Mathilde Alanic (–)
  • Marie Léra (–)
  • Juliette Heuzey (–)
  • Romain Rolland (–), Nobel Prize in Literature,
  • Gaston Leroux (–), author of The Phantom of the Opera and The Mystery of the Yellow Room which is recognized as the first locked room puzzle mystery novel
  • Gabrielle Réval (–)
  • André Gide (–)
  • Henry Bordeaux (–)
  • Marcel Proust (–), author of In Search of Lost Time, sometimes seen as the greatest modernist novel
  • Colette (–), best known for Gigi and Chéri
  • Alfred Jarry (–), satirist, inventor of Pataphysics
  • Jeanne Landre (–), journalist, critic and novelist
  • Fanny Clar (–)
  • Louisa Emily Dobrée (fl. c.&#;–)
  • Roger Martin du Gard (–), Nobel Prize in Literature,
  • Louis Pergaud (–)
  • Rose Combe (–)[1]
  • Georges Duhamel (–)
  • François Mauriac (–), Nobel Prize in Literature,
  • Jules Romains (–)
  • Alain-Fournier (–)
  • Ève Paul-Margueritte (–)
  • Lucie Paul-Margueritte (–)
  • René Maran (–)
  • Georges Bernanos (–)
  • Adrien Bertrand (–)
  • Henri Bosco (–)
  • Pierre Drieu La Rochelle (–), author of Gilles and The Fire Within
  • Louis Ferdinand Céline (–), author of Journey to the End of the Night and Death on the Installment Plan or Mort à Crédit
  • Rose Celli (–)
  • Henri de Montherlant (–)
  • Jean Giono (–)

Born in or after

  • Julien Green (–)
  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (–)
  • Nathalie Sarraute (–)
  • André Malraux (–)
  • Marie-Magdeleine Carbet (–)
  • Irène Némirovsky (–), author of Suite française
  • Raymond Queneau (–)
  • Pierre Herbart (–)
  • Marguerite Yourcenar (–)
  • Raymond Radiguet (–)
  • Jean-Paul Sartre (–), Nobel Prize in Literature,
  • Jeanine Delpech (–)
  • Louise Aslanian (–), pseudonym "Las", author of "The Way of doubt".
  • Paul Gadenne (–)
  • Pauline Réage (–)
  • Simone de Beauvoir (–)
  • Paul Berna (–)
  • Alix André (–)
  • Jean Genet (–)
  • Jean-Louis Baghio'o (–)
  • Raphaël Tardon (–)
  • Henri Troyat (–)
  • Pierre Boulle (–), author of The Bridge on the River Kwai and Planet of the Apes
  • Albert Camus (–), Nobel Prize in Literature,
  • Gilbert Cesbron (–)
  • Claude Simon (–), Nobel Prize in Literature,
  • Romain Gary (–), winner of the Goncourt prize twice, , and under the pseudonym of Emile Ajar
  • Marguerite Duras (–)
  • Joseph Zobel (–)
  • Maurice Druon (–)
  • Boris Vian (–)
  • Alain Robbe-Grillet (–)
  • Salvat Etchart (–)
  • Michel Tournier (–)
  • Philippe Daudy (–)
  • Michel Butor (–)
  • Édouard Glissant (–)
  • André Schwarz-Bart (–)
  • Sébastien Japrisot (–)
  • Emmanuelle Arsan (–)
  • Jean Bernabé (–)
  • Régine Deforges (–)
  • Françoise Sagan (–)
  • Georges Perec (–)
  • Maryse Condé (born )
  • J.M.G. Le Clézio (born ), Nobel Prize in Literature,
  • Annie Ernaux (born ), Nobel Prize in Literature,
  • Marie-Reine de Jaham (born )
  • Patrick Modiano (born ), Nobel Prize in Literature,
  • Daniel Maximin (born )
  • Raphaël Confiant (born )
  • Carole Achache (–)
  • Kama Sywor Kamanda(born )
  • Patrick Chamoiseau (born )
  • Nancy Huston (born )
  • Gisèle Pineau (born )
  • Fred Vargas (born )
  • Michel Houellebecq (born ), Impact award winner
  • Itxaro Borda (born ), Euskadi prize winner
  • Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt (born )
  • Charles Dantzig (born )
  • Pavel Hak (born )
  • Marie-Hélène Lafon (born ), winner of the Goncourt prize,
  • Beatrice Hammer (born )
  • Nadine Ribault (–)
  • Sedef Ecer (born )
  • Jeanne-A Debats (born )
  • Basile Panurgias (born )
  • Fabienne Kanor (born )
  • Laurent Binet (born )
  • Maëlle Guillaud (born )[2]
  • Tristan Garcia (born )

See also

References

  1. ^Dupuy, Aimé (). "Rose Combe, garde-barrière et romancière". La Vie du Rail (in French): 2.
  2. ^"Maëlle Guillaud". (in French). groupe Editis. Retrieved 23 December