Poet, novelist, and dramatist Victor Hugo is considered one of the most important of the French Romantic writers. Though regarded in France as one of that country’s greatest poets, he is better known abroad for such novels as Notre-Dame de Paris (1831; The Hunchback of Notre-Dame) and Les Misérables (1862).
Who was Victor Hugo?
What is Victor Hugo remembered for?
Victor Hugo is remembered as a beloved writer of the people who knew how to write with simplicity and power of common joys and sorrows. He is also remembered for the verbal inventiveness and technical virtuosity with which he created poems, ranging from intimate lyrics to visionary and prophetic epics.