Michel Houellebecq
He is a French poet, novelist and essayist. His novels Extending the battlefield, Elementary particles and Platform became milestones of the new Frenc...
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Victor Hugo
French Romantic poet, playwright, and writer, a leading reference in the French language. He was also a committed and influential politician and intel...
Christian Jacq
Christian Jacq is an Egyptian and a French fiction writer. Doctorate in Egyptian in La Sorbonne, he is a great expert in the time of Pharaoh Ramses II...
Dominique Lapierre
French writer, author of several bestsellers, some of them in collaboration with Larry Collins. Between 1954 and 1967 he was a reporter for the magazi...
Pierre Lemaitre
French writer and screenwriter, winner of the 2013 Goncourt Award with his novel "See you up there.".
Frédéric Lenormand
Escritor francés nacido en París en 1964, reconocido por sus novelas históricas y policíacas. Combina rigor histórico, misterio y humor. Ha recibido e...
Jonathan Littell
French-American writer. Her novel "Las bendivolas" ("Les bienveillantes") was awarded the 2006 Goncourt Prize and the Grand prix du roman de l'Académi...
Guillaume Musso
He is one of the most read authors in France with almost twenty titles behind his back.
Charles Perrault
He was a French writer, mainly recognized for having given literary form to classic children's stories such as Asno Skin, Pulgarcito, Blue Barba, Cind...
Jean-Christophe Rufin
Médico, diplomático, humanitario y escritor francés. Fue pionero del movimiento humanitario francés y ha desempeñado cargos diplomáticos, además de de...
marquis de Sade
Donatien Alphonse François de Sade, better known for his title as Marquis de Sade, was a French writer, essayist and philosopher, author of numerous w...
Antoine Saint-Exupéry (de)
Antoine Marie Jean- Baptiste Roger, Count of Saint- Exupéry, known as Antoine de Saint- Exupéry, was a French aviator and writer, author of the famous...
Elif Shafak
Escritora británico-turca, es una de las autoras más reconocidas de la literatura contemporánea. Escribe en inglés y turco, y sus novelas han sido tra...
Henri Beyle Stendhal
He was a French writer, valued for his acute analysis of the psychology of his characters and for the concision of his style, he is considered one of ...
Albert Uderzo
He is a French cartoonist and screenwriter. Its most famous series is Asterix, whose first edition was created in 1959 with the writer René Goscinny.
Jules Verne
He was a French writer, poet and playwright famous for his adventure novels and for his profound influence on the literary genre of science fiction.
Marguerite Yourcenar
Marguerite Cleenewerck of Crayencour, known as Marguerite Yourcena, was a novelist, poet, playwright and national French translator in 1947.