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Born August 18, 1922 • Brest • France
Died February 18, 2008 (aged 85) • Caen • France
Notable Works “The Erasers” • “Jealousy” • “L’Homme qui ment” • “L’Immortelle” • “Last Year at Marienbad” • “Le Miroir qui revient” • “Repitition” • “Toward a New Novel; Essays on Fiction” • “Trans-Europ-Express” • “Un Roman sentimental”
Jean Cocteau, 1939.
Jean Cocteau
French poet and artist
Marguerite Duras
French author
François Mauriac
François Mauriac
French author
Michael Crichton
American author
Paul Auster
Paul Auster
American author
Noël Coward
Noël Coward
English playwright, actor, and composer
Djebar, Assia
Assia Djebar
Algerian writer and filmmaker
Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire
French author
Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Sartre
French philosopher and author
Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvoir
French writer
Jean Genet
Jean Genet
French writer
Marcel Paul Pagnol
French author and director
Jean Cayrol
French author
Nathalie Sarraute
French author
Claude Simon
French author
Claude Mauriac
French author
Adam, Paul
Paul Adam
French author
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
French critic
François-Auguste-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand
François-Auguste-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand
French author
Duhamel
Georges Duhamel
French author