Max Aub
Spanish writer of French origin. His whole work is written in Spanish, cultivating different genres: narrative, theatre and poetry.
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Charles Baudelaire
French poet, one of the highest exponents of symbolism and considered the initiator of modern poetry.
Simone de Beauvoir
Author, teacher and French philosopher. Beauvoir was a precursor to feminism. He shared life with also writer Jean- Paul Sartre.
Albert Camus
He was a French novelist, essayist, playwright, philosopher and journalist born in Algeria. In his varied work he developed a thought based on the awa...
François-René Chateaubriand
He was a French diplomat, politician and writer considered the founder of romanticism in French literature.
Pierre-Ambroise-François Choderlos de Laclos
He was a French writer and military officer, known for the novel "The Dangerous Relations.".
Philippe Claudel
Philippe Claudel is a French writer and filmmaker. Led in modern letters and passionate for literature and cinema.
Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, better known as Colette, was a novelist, journalist, screenwriter, librettist and magazine artist and French cabaret. He ac...
Alphonse Daudet
Louis Marie Alphonse Daudet was a French writer, author of Tartarín de Tarascón and Cartas from my mill.
Chrétien de Troyes
He was a poet of the court of Champagne. He is said to be the first novelist in France and, according to some, 1-the father of the Western novel.
René Descartes
Also called Renatus Cartesiu, he was a French philosopher, mathematician and physicist, considered the father of analytical geometry and modern philos...
Denis Diderot
He was a decisive figure of the Illustration as a French writer, philosopher and encyclopedist..
Alexandre Dumas
Novelist and French playwright, creator of some of the best adventure novels in history. His son, Alexandre Dumas son, was also a known writer.
Alexandre Dumas (hijo)
He was a French writer and novelist, author of the well-known pink novel La dama de las camelias, adapted to the opera in La traviata de Giuseppe Verd...
Marguerite Duras
Marguerite Duras, a pseudonym for Marguerite Germaine Marie Donnadieu, was a French novelist, screenwriter and film director.
Annie Ernaux
She's a French-language woman, a literature teacher. His literary work, essentially autobiographical, maintains close links with sociology.
Jean-Yves Ferri
French cartoonist and screenwriter, elected in 2011 writer of the series Astérix el Galo created by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo. He was personally...
Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert was a French writer. He is considered one of the best Western novelists and is known mainly for his first published novel, Madame Bov...
Edmond de Goncourt
He was a French writer whose family came from Goncourt in Haute-Marne. He wrote part of his work in collaboration with his brother, Jules de Goncourt....
René Goscinny
He was a screenwriter and comic book editor. Mainly famous for being the co-author of the adventures of Asterix.