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Born September 26, 1928 (age 98) ‱ Benin
Notable Works “As She Was Discovering Tigony” ‱ “Le Chant du lac” ‱ “Snares Without End”
Guy de Maupassant
Guy de Maupassant
French writer
Albert Camus
Albert Camus
French author
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Georges Eekhoud
Belgian writer
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Jean-Richard Bloch
French writer
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Germaine GuĂšvremont
Canadian author
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Maurice Leblanc
French author and journalist
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Louis-Alexandre Chatrian
French author
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Émile Erckmann
French author
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
American writer
Life-sized plaster sculpture Seated Voltaire by Jean-Antoine Houdon shows Voltaire draped in a robe, seated with a thoughtful expression and a ribbon crown, against a dark background.
Voltaire
French philosopher and author
Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo
French writer
James Joyce wearing a dark suit, light tie, round glasses, and a hat, looking to the side outdoors in Zurich, Switzerland.
James Joyce
Irish author
Stendhal, oil painting by Pierre-Joseph Dedreux-Dorcy; in the BibliothĂšque Municipale de Grenoble, France.
Stendhal
French author
Honoré de Balzac daguerreotype, 1848
Honoré de Balzac
French author
Samuel Beckett, 1965
Samuel Beckett
Irish author
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
Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert
French author
Portrait of French author Marcel Proust, seated with his hand resting thoughtfully against his chin, wearing a dark suit and looking directly at the camera.
Marcel Proust
French writer
Vigny, lithograph by Antoine Maurin, 1832
Alfred-Victor, count de Vigny
French author
Indian writer Khushwant Singh in his study
Khushwant Singh
Indian writer