Which writer was from France, Marguerite Duras or Ryūnosuke Akutagawa?
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Marguerite Duras Marguerite Donnadieu, known as Marguerite Duras (] ; 4 April 1914 – 3 March 1996), was a French novelist, playwright, scriptwriter, essayist, and experimental filmmaker. Her 1959 film "Hiroshima mon amour", earned her a nomination for Best Original Screenplay at the Academy Awards.
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Ryūnosuke Akutagawa Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (芥川 龍之介 , Akutagawa Ryūnosuke , 1 March 1892 – 24 July 1927) was a Japanese writer active in the Taishō period in Japan. He is regarded as the "Father of the Japanese short story" and Japan's premier literary award, the Akutagawa Prize, is named after him. He committed suicide at the age of 35 through an overdose of barbital.
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Hideo Takubo Hideo Takubo (田久 保英夫 , Takubo Hideo , January 25, 1928 - April 14, 2001) was a noted Japanese author. He studied French literature at Keio University, and won the 1969 Akutagawa Prize for "Fukaikawa" (Deep River), 1985 Yomiuri Prize for "Kaizu", and 1997 Noma Literary Prize for "Kodamashu".
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Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam Jean-Marie-Mathias-Philippe-Auguste, comte de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (7 November 1838 – 19 August 1889) was a French symbolist writer.
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Marguerite Abouet Marguerite Abouet (born 1971) is an Ivorian writer of bandes dessinées, best known for her graphic novel series "Aya".
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Georges Dufrénoy Georges Dufrénoy (June 20, 1870December 9, 1943) was a French post-Impressionist painter associated with Fauvism.
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Rachilde Rachilde was the pen name and preferred identity of novelist and playwright Marguerite Vallette-Eymery (February 11, 1860 – April 4, 1953). Born near Périgueux, Dordogne, Aquitaine, France during the Second French Empire, Rachilde went on to become a symbolist author and the most prominent woman in literature associated with the Decadent Movement of fin de siècle France.
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Marguerite Henry Marguerite Henry née Breithaupt (April 13, 1902 – November 26, 1997) was an American writer of children's books, writing fifty-nine books based on true stories of horses and other animals. She won the Newbery Medal for one of her books about horses and she was a runner-up for two others. One of the latter, "Misty of Chincoteague" (1947), was the basis for several sequels and for the 1961 movie "Misty".
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Charles Maurras Charles-Marie-Photius Maurras (] ; 20 April 1868 – 16 November 1952) was a French author, poet, and critic. He was an organizer and principal philosopher of "Action Française", a political movement that was monarchist, anti-parliamentarist, and counter-revolutionary. Maurras' ideas greatly influenced National Catholicism and "nationalisme intégral". A major tenet of integral nationalism was stated by Maurras as "a true nationalist places his country above everything". A political theorist and a major intellectual influence in early 20th-century Europe, his views influenced several far-right ideologies; it also anticipated some of the ideas of fascism.
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Paul Léautaud Paul Léautaud (18 January 1872 – 22 February 1956) was a French writer and theater critic for Mercure de France, signing his often caustic reviews with the pseudonym Maurice Boissard.
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Brigitte Giraud Brigitte Giraud (born 1960, Sidi-Bel-Abbès in Algeria) is a French writer, author of novels ands and short stories.
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Edmond Jabès Edmond Jabès (] ; Hebrew: אדמון ז'אבס‎ ‎ , Arabic: إدمون جابيس‎ ‎ ; Cairo, April 16, 1912 – Paris, January 2, 1991) was a French writer and poet of an Egyptian origin, and one of the best known literary figures to write in French after World War II. The work he produced when living in France in the late 1950s until his death in 1991 is highly original in its form and its breadth.
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French literature French literature is, generally speaking, literature written in the French language, particularly by citizens of France; it may also refer to literature written by people living in France who speak traditional languages of France other than French. Literature written in French language, by citizens of other nations such as Belgium, Switzerland, Canada, Senegal, Algeria, Morocco, etc. is referred to as Francophone literature. As of 2006, French writers have been awarded more Nobel Prizes in Literature than novelists, poets and essayists of any other country. France itself ranks first in the list of Nobel Prizes in literature by country.
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Kira Poutanen Kira Poutanen (born 1974) is a Finnish Nobel listed writer, translator and actress. She holds a Master of Philosophy and is currently living in France.
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Jean-Baptiste Dubos Jean-Baptiste Dubos (] ; 14 December 1670 – 23 March 1742), also referred to as l'Abbé Du Bos, was a French author.
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Vanessa Duriès Vanessa Duriès, also known as Katia Lamara (1972 – December 13, 1993) was a French novelist.
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Olivier Maulin Olivier Maulin (born 1969 in Alsace) is a French writer. His works have been characterised by humour and satire. His 2006 novel "En attendant le roi du monde" received the Ouest-France Prize at the Étonnants voyageurs festival. The journalist Jérôme Leroy has described Maulin as an "anar de droite", a right-wing anarchist, and thereby grouped him with writers such as François Rabelais, Marcel Aymé, Antoine Blondin and the screenwriter Michel Audiard. Reviewing Maulin's novel "Les Lumières du ciel" for "Le Figaro", Frédéric Beigbeder described Maulin as a "neo-hippie".
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Nathalie Sarraute Nathalie Sarraute (] ; July 18, 1900 – October 19, 1999) was a French lawyer and writer.
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Fadhma Aït Mansour Marguerite-Fadhma Aït Mansour Amrouche (c. 1882 in Tizi Hibel, Algeria – July 9, 1967 in Saint-Brice-en-Coglès, France) was a poet and folksinger. She is the mother of writers Jean Amrouche and Taos Amrouche.
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Auguste-Jacques Lemierre d'Argy Auguste-Jacques Lemierre d'Argy (1 March 1762, Paris – 12 December 1815, Paris) was an 18th–19th-century French writer and translator.
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Du &quot;Cubisme&quot; Du "Cubisme", also written Du Cubisme, or Du « Cubisme » (and in English, On Cubism or Cubism), is a book written in 1912 by Albert Gleizes and Jean Metzinger. This was the first major text on Cubism, predating "Les Peintres Cubistes" by Guillaume Apollinaire (1913). The book is illustrated with black and white photographs of works by Paul Cézanne (1), Gleizes (5), Metzinger (5), Fernand Léger (5), Juan Gris (1), Francis Picabia (2), Marcel Duchamp (2), Pablo Picasso (1), Georges Braque (1), André Derain (1), and Marie Laurencin (2).
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Dragon: the Old Potter's Tale "Dragon: the Old Potter’s Tale" (龍 , Ryū ) is a short story by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa. It was first published in a collection of Akutagawa short stories, "Akutagawa Ryūnosuke zenshū". The story is based on a thirteenth-century Japanese tale, with Akutagawa’s Taishō literary interpretations of modern psychology and the nature of religion.