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Max Aub

Spanish writer of French origin. His whole work is written in Spanish, cultivating different genres: narrative, theatre and poetry.

Honoré de Balzac

French novelist, representative of the so-called 19th century realistic novel.

Charles Baudelaire

French poet, one of the highest exponents of symbolism and considered the initiator of modern poetry.

Simone de Beauvoir

Author, teacher and French philosopher. Beauvoir was a precursor to feminism. He shared life with also writer Jean- Paul Sartre.

Albert Camus

He was a French novelist, essayist, playwright, philosopher and journalist born in Algeria. In his varied work he developed a thought based on the awa...

Henri Charriere

French novelist, known by "Papillon.".

François-René Chateaubriand

He was a French diplomat, politician and writer considered the founder of romanticism in French literature.

Gabriel Chevallier

French novelist, known for "Locchemerle.".

Pierre-Ambroise-François Choderlos de Laclos

He was a French writer and military officer, known for the novel "The Dangerous Relations.".

Philippe Claudel

Philippe Claudel is a French writer and filmmaker. Led in modern letters and passionate for literature and cinema.

Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette

Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, better known as Colette, was a novelist, journalist, screenwriter, librettist and magazine artist and French cabaret. He ac...

Mélissa Da Costa

French writer.

Alphonse Daudet

Louis Marie Alphonse Daudet was a French writer, author of Tartarín de Tarascón and Cartas from my mill.

Chrétien de Troyes

He was a poet of the court of Champagne. He is said to be the first novelist in France and, according to some, 1-the father of the Western novel.

René Descartes

Also called Renatus Cartesiu, he was a French philosopher, mathematician and physicist, considered the father of analytical geometry and modern philos...

Denis Diderot

He was a decisive figure of the Illustration as a French writer, philosopher and encyclopedist..

Alexandre Dumas

Novelist and French playwright, creator of some of the best adventure novels in history. His son, Alexandre Dumas son, was also a known writer.

Alexandre Dumas (hijo)

He was a French writer and novelist, author of the well-known pink novel La dama de las camelias, adapted to the opera in La traviata de Giuseppe Verd...

Marguerite Duras

Marguerite Duras, a pseudonym for Marguerite Germaine Marie Donnadieu, was a French novelist, screenwriter and film director.

Annie Ernaux

She's a French-language woman, a literature teacher. His literary work, essentially autobiographical, maintains close links with sociology.

Jean-Yves Ferri

French cartoonist and screenwriter, elected in 2011 writer of the series Astérix el Galo created by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo. He was personally...

Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert was a French writer. He is considered one of the best Western novelists and is known mainly for his first published novel, Madame Bov...

Jean Genet

Dramaturgo, novelist and French poet, known for "Our Lady of Flowers.".

Edmond de Goncourt

He was a French writer whose family came from Goncourt in Haute-Marne. He wrote part of his work in collaboration with his brother, Jules de Goncourt....

René Goscinny

He was a screenwriter and comic book editor. Mainly famous for being the co-author of the adventures of Asterix.