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Honoré de Balzac

French author

Colette

French writer

Prosper Mérimée

French author

Alexandre Dumas, père

French author [1802–1870]

Georges Perec

French author

Pierre Boulle

French author

Pierre Drieu La Rochelle

French writer

Léon Daudet

French journalist and author

Maxime Du Camp

French writer and photographer

Jean-François Marmontel

French author

Maurice Charles Louis Genevoix

French writer

Albert Cohen

Greek-born French-Jewish author and diplomat

Isaac Asimov

American author

Joyce Carol Oates

American author

Ruskin Bond

Indian author

Frank Sargeson

New Zealand writer

Saul Bellow

American author

Leslie Marmon Silko

American author

Alain Mabanckou

Congolese author

Witi Ihimaera

New Zealand author