21st-century french non-fiction writers

Claude Levi-Strauss

French anthropologist and ethnologist whose work was key in the development of the theories of structuralism and structural anthropology

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 Kundera’s Czechoslovak citizenship was revoked in 1979; he received his Czech citizenship in 2019.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