Andre Malraux
French novelist, art theorist, and minister of cultural affairs
20th-century french novelists
Milan Kundera
Czech writer who went into exile in France in 1975, becoming a naturalised French citizen in 1981. Kundera’s Czechoslovak citizenship was revoked in 1979; he received his Czech citizenship in 2019. He “sees himself as a French writer and insists his work should be studied as French literature and classified as such in book stores”.Kundera’s best-known work is The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Colette
French author and woman of letters
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
Albert Camus
French philosopher, author, and journalist
Simone de Beauvoir
French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, socialist, and social theorist
Georges Bernanos
French author, and a soldier in World War I. A Roman Catholic with monarchist leanings, he was critical of elitist thought and was opposed to what he identified as defeatism