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What was Victor Hugo’s first novel?
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Victor Hugo
French poet, novelist, and dramatist Victor Hugo, photograph by Nadar (Gaspard-Félix Tournachon). Hugo's best-loved works are the novels Notre-Dame de Paris (1831; The Hunchback of Notre-Dame) and Les Misérables (1862).
Victor Hugo’s first novel was Han d’Islande, published in 1823. It was later released in an English translation titled Hans of Iceland in 1825.1