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Also Known As Utto Rodolph
Born August 22, 1940 • Mali
Died October 14, 2017 (aged 77) • Mali
Awards And Honors Prix Renaudot (1968)
Notable Works “Bound to Violence” • “Les Milles et un bibles du sexe” • “Lettre à la France nègre”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Swiss-born French philosopher
Rolland
Romain Rolland
French writer
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Louis-Ferdinand Céline
French writer
Bernanos
Georges Bernanos
French author
Alain Mabanckou
Alain Mabanckou
Congolese author
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Maurice Druon
French author
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Émile Erckmann
French author
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Jules Goncourt
French author
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Edmond Goncourt
French author
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Louis-Alexandre Chatrian
French author
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Jérôme Tharaud
French writer
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Jean Tharaud
French writer
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Laure Conan
Canadian author
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
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
British writer
Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo
French writer
Stendhal, oil painting by Pierre-Joseph Dedreux-Dorcy; in the Bibliothèque Municipale de Grenoble, France.
Stendhal
French author
Honoré de Balzac daguerreotype, 1848
Honoré de Balzac
French author
Samuel Beckett, 1965
Samuel Beckett
Irish author
Dimitry Levitzky: portrait of Denis Diderot
Denis Diderot
French philosopher