Emile Zola
French novelist, journalist, playwright, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism, and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism
20th-century french male writers
Andre Schwarz-Bart
French novelist of Polish-Jewish origins
Marcel Pagnol
French novelist, playwright, and filmmaker
Georges Perec
French novelist, filmmaker, documentalist, and essayist
Amin Maalouf
Lebanese-born French author who has lived in France since 1976. Although his native language is Arabic, he writes in French, and his works have been translated into over 40 languages
Andre Malraux
French novelist, art theorist, and minister of cultural affairs
Julio Cortazar
Argentine-French novelist, short story writer, essayist, and translator
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Pen name of Louis Ferdinand Auguste Destouches , a French novelist, polemicist and physician
Fernand Braudel
French historian and a leader of the Annales School
Albert Camus
French philosopher, author, and journalist