Jean Echenoz

Jean Echenoz

male, 62 years old
novelist, French, lyon, PrixGoncourtwinner, marseille, cherokee…Prix Médicis winner, prix Goncourt, Prix Médicis, prix Aristeion
Jean Echenoz is a French writer. Echenoz studied in Rodez, Digne-les-Bains, Lyon, Aix-en-Provence, Marseille and Paris, where he lives since 1970....
Jonathan Littell

Jonathan Littell

male, 42 years old
writer, Jewish American, Yale University alumni, French, PrixGoncourtwinner, American
Jonathan Littell is an award-winning French-American writer who writes mainly in French and now lives both in France and Spain.
Romain Gary

Romain Gary

male, deceased (1980)
les racines du ciel, PrixGoncourtwinner, novelist, aviator, la danse de gengis cohn, clair de femme
Romain Gary was a French novelist, film director, World War II pilot, and diplomat.

Patrick Modiano

male, 64 years old
novelist, Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française, Lacombe Lucien, prix Goncourt, Boulogne-Billancourt, PrixGoncourtwinner
Patrick Modiano is a French language novelist born 30 July 1945 in Boulogne-Billancourt of a father of Italian origins and a Belgian mother, Louisa...
Antonine Maillet

Antonine Maillet

female, 80 years old
Pélagie-la-Charrette, Member of the Order of New Brunswick, Governor General's Award winning fiction writer, New Brunswick writer, Royal Society of Canada, National Order of Quebec…prix Goncourt, PrixGoncourtwinner
Antonine Maillet, PC, CC, OQ, ONB, LL.D, FRSC, (born May 10,1929) is a Canadian Acadian novelist, playwright, and scholar. She was born in...
Henri Troyat

Henri Troyat

male, deceased (2007)
La neige en deuil, Levon Aslan Torossian, Lev Aslanovich Tarasov, Armenian descent, The Mountain, Armenian-French…PrixGoncourtwinner, prix Goncourt
Henri Troyat, born Levon Aslan Torossian or Lev Aslanovich Tarasov(rus:"Лев Асланович Тарасов"), (November 1, 1911 - March 2, 2007) was a French...
Marguerite Duras

Marguerite Duras

female, deceased (1996) (France)
French women writer, saigon, Playwright, film director, hiroshima mon amour, French…PrixGoncourtwinner
Marguerite Donnadieu, better known as Marguerite Duras (April 4, 1914 – March 3, 1996) was a French writer and film director. She was born in Sa...
Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust

male, deceased (1922)
oeuvres complètes 10 Volumes, correspondence générale, contre sainte- beuve, jean santeuil, pastiches et mélanges, sésame et le lys…PrixGoncourtwinner
Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust, a monumental work of twentieth-century fiction published in seven volumes from 1913 to 1927.
Michel Tournier

Michel Tournier

male, 85 years old
novelist, Le Miroir des idées, Le Coq de bruyère, Le Vol du vampire, Gilles et Jeanne, Le Vent Paraclet…PrixGoncourtwinner, prix Goncourt, Académie Goncourt, Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française
Michel Tournier is a French writer who was born in Paris. His works are highly considered and have won important awards such as the "Grand Prix du...
Simone de Beauvoir

Simone de Beauvoir

female, deceased (1986)
Feminist, LGBT writer, death by pneumonia, polyamory, From France, novelist…PrixGoncourtwinner
Simone de Beauvoir (January 9, 1908 - April 14, 1986) was a French author and philosopher. She wrote novels, monographs on philosophy, politics,...