French male novelists

The list French male novelists includes Bernard-Henri Lévy, Frédéric Beigbeder, Jules Verne, Bertrand de Jouvenel and Marc Lévy. The list consists of 777 members and 16 sublists.

Alexandre Dumas
4L, 17T
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Alphonse Daudet
2L, 6T
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Émile Zola
3L, 2T
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- Émile Zola
- Zola (crater)
Guy de Maupassant
3L, 7T
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Honoré de Balzac
4L, 7T
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Jules Verne
5L, 55T
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Louis-Ferdinand Céline
2L, 5T
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Marcel Proust
6L, 11T
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Marquis de Sade
3L, 1T
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- Marquis de Sade
Pierre Loti
1L, 1T
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- Pierre Loti
Prosper Mérimée
4L, 7T
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Raymond Radiguet
8T
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Stefan Wul
1L, 3T
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Stendhal
2L, 5T
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1.

Bernard-Henri Lévy

French philosopher

Overview: Bernard-Henri Lévy (born 5 November 1948) is a French public intellectual. Often referred to in France simply as BHL, he was one of the leaders of the "Nouveaux Philosophes" (New Philosophers) movement ...

Date of birth: 5 November 1948

Age: 75

Nationality: French

Occupation: Philosopher

Gender: Male

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French male non-fiction writers 2,066T

20th-century French male writers 1,582T

Sciences Po alumni 597T
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Victor Hugo

French novelist, poet, and dramatist (1802–1885)

Overview: Victor-Marie Hugo ( 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years ...

Date of birth: 26 February 1802

Date of death: 22 May 1885

Age: 83 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)

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Philosophical theists 22T

French writers exiled in Belgium 2T

Literary peers 21T
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Frédéric Beigbeder

French writer and literary critic

Overview: Frédéric Beigbeder (born 21 September 1965) is a French writer, literary critic and television presenter. He won the Prix Interallié in 2003 for his novel Windows on the World and the Prix Renaudot in ...

Date of birth: 21 September 1965

Age: 59

Nationality: French

Occupation: Author

Gender: Male

Partner: Lara Micheli (Married)

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French male non-fiction writers 2,066T

21st-century French male writers 320T

20th-century French male writers 1,582T
4.

Romain Gary

French writer and diplomat (1914-1980)

Overview: Romain Gary (21 May [O.S. 8 May] 1914 – 2 December 1980), born Roman Kacew (also known by the pen name Émile Ajar), was a French novelist, diplomat, film director, and World War II aviator ...

Date of birth: 8 May 1914

Date of death: 2 December 1980

Age: 66 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Occupation: Director

Gender: Male

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People from Vilensky Uyezd 39T

Film people from Vilnius 12T

1980 suicides 35T
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Olivier Rolin

French writer

Overview: Olivier Rolin (born 14 May 1947, in Boulogne-Billancourt) is a French writer. He won the Prix Femina in 1994, for his novel Port-Soudan.

Date of birth: 14 May 1947

Age: 77

Nationality: French

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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Prix France Culture winners 27T

Prix Louis Guilloux winners 25T

20th-century French novelists 807T
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Lucien Daudet

French writer

Overview: Lucien Daudet (11 June 1878 – 16 November 1946) was a French writer, the son of Alphonse Daudet and Julia Daudet. Although a prolific novelist and painter, he was never really able to trump his father's ...

Date of birth: 9 June 1878

Date of death: 16 November 1946

Age: 68 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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20th-century LGBT people 3,251T

Daudet family 5T

19th-century French male writers 638T
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François-Marie Banier

French, Novelist

Overview: François-Marie Banier () (born 27 June 1947) is a French novelist, playwright, artist, actor and photographer. He is particularly known for his photographs of celebrities and other public figures and for ...

Date of birth: 27 June 1947

Age: 77

Nationality: French

Occupation: Novelist

Gender: Male

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Novelists from Paris 44T

French LGBT painters 18T

French LGBT photographers 11T
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Jules Verne

French science fiction author

Overview: Jules Gabriel Verne (8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages extraordi ...

Date of birth: 8 February 1828

Date of death: 24 March 1905

Age: 77 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Occupation: Author

Gender: Male

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Members of the Ligue de la patrie française 123T

19th-century French dramatists and playwrights 581T

French male short story writers 72T
9.

Bertrand de Jouvenel

French politician

Overview: Bertrand de Jouvenel des Ursins (31 October 1903 – 1 March 1987) was a French philosopher, political economist, and futurist.

Date of birth: 31 October 1903

Date of death: 1 March 1987

Age: 83 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Occupation: Philosopher

Gender: Male

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French male writers 4,032T

Writers from Paris 1,366T

Ecological economists 47T
10.

Marc Lévy

French writer

Overview: Marc Levy (born 16 October 1961) is a French novelist.

Date of birth: 16 October 1961

Age: 62

Nationality: French

Occupation: Novelist

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 1" (185 cm)

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21st-century French male writers 320T

French psychological fiction writers 9T

21st-century French novelists 420T
11.

Georges Bataille

French writer and intellectual

Overview: Georges Albert Maurice Victor Bataille (10 September 1897 – 9 July 1962) was a French philosopher and intellectual working in philosophy, literature, sociology, anthropology, consumerism, and history of ...

Date of birth: 16 September 1897

Date of death: 9 July 1962

Age: 64 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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20th-century male writers 5,043T

French surrealist writers 39T

Deaths from arteriosclerosis 27T
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Bernard Giraudeau

French sailor, actor, film director, scriptwriter, producer and writer

Overview: Bernard René Giraudeau (18 June 1947 – 17 July 2010) was a French actor, film director, scriptwriter, producer and writer.

Date of birth: 11 June 1947

Date of death: 17 July 2010

Age: 63 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 9" (175 cm)

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21st-century French male writers 362T

20th-century French male writers 1,644T

French male screenwriters 571T
13.

Willy

French writer

Overview: Henry Gauthier-Villars (8 August 1859 – 12 January 1931) or Willy, his nom-de-plume, was a French fin de siècle writer and music critic who is today mostly known as the mentor and first husband of Colette ...

Date of birth: 10 August 1859

Date of death: 12 January 1931

Age: 71 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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19th-century French male writers 615T

20th-century French male writers 1,582T

20th-century male writers 5,043T
14.

Roger Peyrefitte

French diplomat and writer

Overview: Roger Peyrefitte (17 August 1907 – 5 November 2000) was a French diplomat, writer of bestseller novels and non-fiction, and a defender of gay rights and pederasty.

Date of birth: 17 August 1907

Date of death: 5 November 2000

Age: 93 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Occupation: Novelist

Gender: Male

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Writers from Occitanie 18T

Gay diplomats 34T

20th-century French male writers 1,582T
15.

Milan Kundera

Writer

Overview: Milan Kundera (, 1 April 1929 – 11 July 2023) was a Czech-born French writer. Kundera went into exile in France in 1975, acquiring citizenship in 1981. His Czechoslovak citizenship was revoked in 1979 ...

Date of birth: 1 April 1929

Date of death: 11 July 2023

Age: 94 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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Writers from Brno 50T

Czech male novelists 21T

20th-century Czech novelists 19T
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Florian Zeller

French novelist, playwright, and director

Overview: Florian Zeller (born 28 June 1979) is a French novelist, playwright and director. He won the prestigious Prix Interallié in 2004 for his novel La Fascination du Pire (Fascination of Evil) and several awards ...

Date of birth: 28 June 1979

Age: 45

Nationality: French

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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21st-century screenwriters 214T

21st-century French male writers 320T

French male screenwriters 543T
17.

Émile Zola

French writer

Overview: Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola (, , 2 April 1840 – 29 September 1902) was a French novelist, playwright, journalist, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism, and an ...

Date of birth: 2 April 1840

Date of death: 28 September 1902

Age: 62 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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Dreyfusards 11T

Émile Zola 2T

19th-century French male writers 639T
18.

Roland Topor

French illustrator

Overview: Roland Topor (7 January 1938 – 16 April 1997) was a French illustrator, cartoonist, comics artist, painter, novelist, playwright, film and TV writer, filmmaker and actor, who was known for the surreal ...

Date of birth: 7 January 1938

Date of death: 16 April 1997

Age: 59 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Occupation: Cartoonist

Gender: Male

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Roland Topor 11T

French male non-fiction writers 2,066T

20th-century French male writers 1,582T
19.

Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

french writer

Overview: Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt (born 28 March 1960) is a Franco–Belgian playwright, short story writer and novelist, as well as a film director. His plays have been staged in over fifty countries all over the world ...

Date of birth: 28 March 1960

Age: 64

Nationality: French

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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21st-century French male writers 320T

20th-century French male writers 1,582T

Members of the Académie royale de langue et de littérature françaises de Belgique 49T
20.

André Gide

French novelist and essayist

Overview: André Paul Guillaume Gide (22 November 1869 – 19 February 1951) was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (in 1947). Gide's career ranged from its beginnings in the symbolist movement ...

Date of birth: 22 November 1869

Date of death: 19 February 1951

Age: 81 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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French LGBT novelists 55T

Nouvelle Revue Française editors 14T

20th-century LGBT people 3,252T