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Also Known As Utto Rodolph
Born August 22, 1940 • Mali
Died October 14, 2017 (aged 77) • Mali
Awards And Honors Prix Renaudot (1968)
Notable Works “Bound to Violence” • “Les Milles et un bibles du sexe” • “Lettre à la France nègre”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Swiss-born French philosopher
Rolland
Romain Rolland
French writer
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
French writer
Bernanos
Georges Bernanos
French author
Alain Mabanckou
Alain Mabanckou
Congolese author
Jean Tharaud
French writer
Jérôme Tharaud
French writer
Louis-Alexandre Chatrian
French author
Laure Conan
Canadian author
Émile Erckmann
French author
Jules Goncourt
French author
Edmond Goncourt
French author
Voltaire
Voltaire
French philosopher and author
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
British writer
Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo
French writer
Stendhal, oil painting by Pierre-Joseph Dedreux-Dorcy; in the Bibliothèque Municipale de Grenoble, France.
Stendhal
French author
Honoré de Balzac
Honoré de Balzac
French author
Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett
Irish author
Dimitry Levitzky: portrait of Denis Diderot
Denis Diderot
French philosopher
Émile Zola.
Émile Zola
French author