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Also Known As Romain Kacew
Born May 8, 1914 • Vilnius • Lithuania
Died December 2, 1980 (aged 66) • Paris • France
Awards And Honors Prix Goncourt (1956)
Notable Works “Forest of Anger” • “The Roots of Heaven”
Marcel Proust
Marcel Proust
French writer
André Malraux, 1967.
André Malraux
French writer and statesman
Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvoir
French writer
Marguerite Duras
French author
Duhamel
Georges Duhamel
French author
Stendhal, oil painting by Pierre-Joseph Dedreux-Dorcy; in the Bibliothèque Municipale de Grenoble, France.
Stendhal
French author
Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Sartre
French philosopher and author
François-Auguste-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand
François-Auguste-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand
French author
Rolland
Romain Rolland
French writer
François Mauriac
François Mauriac
French author
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
French author
Constant, detail of an oil painting by Hercule des Roches, c. 1830; in the Musée Carnavalet, Paris
Benjamin Constant
French author
George Sand
George Sand
French novelist
Georges Perec
French author
Jean Genet
Jean Genet
French writer
Alain Robbe-Grillet
French author
Nathalie Sarraute
French author
Hervé Bazin, 1961
Hervé Bazin
French author
Jacques de Lacretelle
French novelist
Jules Renard
Jules Renard
French author