Nathalie Sarraute: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	Nathalie Ilyanova Tcherniak
Born	July 18, 1900 • Ivanovo • Russia
Died	October 19, 1999 (aged 99) • Paris • France
Notable Works	“Portrait of a Man Unknown”

Marcel Proust

French writer

François-Auguste-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand

French author and diplomat

Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio

French author

Simone de Beauvoir

French writer

Alain Robbe-Grillet

French author

Jean Cayrol

French author

Michel Butor

French author

Claude Mauriac

French author

Suzanne Lilar

Belgian author

Albert Memmi

Tunisian novelist

Maurice Druon

French author

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Swiss-born French philosopher

Charles Baudelaire

French author

Stendhal

French author

Denis Diderot

French philosopher

Black and white portrait of French novelist Emile Zola with glasses, a full beard, and mustache, wearing a suit and looking to the side.

Émile Zola

French author

Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

French critic

Jean-Paul Sartre

French philosopher and author

André Malraux

French novelist, art historian, and statesman

Albert Camus

French author

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