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Also Known As Michel Thomas
Born February 26, 1956 or February 26, 1958 • Réunion • France
Awards And Honors Prix Goncourt (2010)
Notable Works “Anéantir” • “Public Enemies” • “Submission” • “The Elementary Particles” • “The Map and the Territory” • “The Possibility of an Island” • “Whatever”

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French writer Michel Houellebecq in 2014, wearing a dark jacket over a blue shirt, standing in front of a blue backdrop with white text and logos.
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Théophile Gautier
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Pierre-Jean Jouve
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Tahar Ben Jelloun
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Moroccan French author
Barbusse, 1935
Henri Barbusse
French author
Hébert, Anne
Anne Hébert
Canadian poet and novelist
Christine de Pisan
Christine de Pisan
French writer
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Félix-Antoine Savard
Canadian author
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Charles Plisnier
Belgian author
Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo
French writer
Stendhal, oil painting by Pierre-Joseph Dedreux-Dorcy; in the Bibliothèque Municipale de Grenoble, France.
Stendhal
French author
Vigny, lithograph by Antoine Maurin, 1832
Alfred-Victor, count de Vigny
French author
French write and Nobel laureate André Gide
André Gide
French writer
Paul Verlaine, detail from Un Coin de table, oil painting by Henri Fantin-Latour, 1872; in the Louvre, Paris.
Paul Verlaine
French poet
Alphonse Daudet
Alphonse Daudet
French author
Jean Cocteau, 1939.
Jean Cocteau
French poet and artist
Colette
Colette
French writer
God of Carnage
Yasmina Reza
French dramatist, novelist, and actress
François Mauriac
François Mauriac
French author
Rolland
Romain Rolland
French writer
Romains
Jules Romains
French author

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