Which novelist, Irène Némirovsky or Michael Frayn, wrote primarily in French?
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Irène Némirovsky Irène Némirovsky (] ; 24 February 1903 – 17 August 1942) was a novelist of Ukrainian Jewish origin born in Kiev Ukraine under the Russian Empire; she lived more than half her life in France and wrote in French, but was denied French citizenship. Arrested as a Jew under the racial laws – which did not take into account her conversion to Roman Catholicism – she died at Auschwitz at the age of 39. Successful in her day, she is now best known for the posthumously published "Suite française.
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Michael Frayn Michael Frayn, FRSL ( ; born 8 September 1933) is an English playwright and novelist. He is best known as the author of the farce "Noises Off" and the dramas "Copenhagen" and "Democracy". His novels, such as "Towards the End of the Morning", "Headlong" and "Spies", have also been critical and commercial successes, making him one of the handful of writers in the English language to succeed in both drama and prose fiction. He has also written philosophical works, such as "The Human Touch: Our Part in the Creation of the Universe" (2006).
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A Battle of Nerves A Battle of Nerves (French: "La Tête d'un homme", also known as "A Man's Head") is a detective novel by Belgian writer Georges Simenon, featuring his character Inspector Jules Maigret. Published in 1931, it is one of the earliest of Simenon's "Maigret" novels, and one of eleven he had published that year.
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René Frégni René Frégni (born 1947) is an award-winning French novelist.
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Adrien Payn Adrien Henri Payn (Paris, 30 July 1800 – Montévrain, 3 October 1855) was a 19th-century French novelist and playwright.
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Vladimir Nabokov Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov ( ; Russian: Влади́мир Влади́мирович Набо́ков , ] , also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin; (April 22nd, 1899 — July 2nd, 1977) was a Russian-American novelist and entomologist. His first nine novels were in Russian, but he achieved international prominence after he began writing English prose.
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François Mauriac François Charles Mauriac (] ; 11 October 1885 – 1 September 1970) was a French novelist, dramatist, critic, poet, and journalist, a member of the" Académie française" (from 1933), and laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1952). He was awarded the Grand Cross of the "Légion d'honneur" in 1958.
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Michel Tournier Michel Tournier (] ; 19 December 1924 − 18 January 2016) was a French writer. He won awards such as the "Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française" in 1967 for "Friday, or, The Other Island" and the Prix Goncourt for "The Erl-King" in 1970.
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Marcelle Ferron Marcelle Ferron, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (January 29, 1924 – November 19, 2001), a "Québécoise" painter and stained glass artist, was a major figure in the Quebec contemporary art scene, associated with the Automatistes.
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Roger Lemelin Roger Lemelin, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (April 7, 1919 – March 16, 1992) was a Quebec novelist, television writer and essayist.
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Louis-Ferdinand Céline Louis-Ferdinand Céline (] ) was the pen name of Louis Ferdinand Auguste Destouches (] ; 27 May 1894 – 1 July 1961), a French novelist, pamphleteer and physician. He developed a new style of writing that modernized French literature. His most famous work is the 1932 novel, "Journey to the End of the Night".
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Jules Verne Jules Gabriel Verne ( ; ] ; 8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright.
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The Festival of Insignificance The Festival of Insignificance (French: "La fête de l'insignifiance" ) is a novel by Milan Kundera. This is his eleventh fictional work. It is about a man named Alain, who has not seen his mother since his childhood; Ramon, an intellectual who has retired; D’Ardelo, a man who has a narcissistic personality; Charles and “Caliban” are two people who operate a catering firm; and Quaquelique is an old man who remains attracted to women. Quaquelique manages to seduce women using his skill at non-stop talking. The novel is set in Paris. The themes include "the erotic potential; the link between mother and child; the procreative role of sex; angels...[,] navel gazing...and insignificance. The novels' characters discuss the philosophical ideas of Hegel, Kant and Schopenhauer. The novel is made up of seven parts (an approach he also used in his novel "The Unbearable Lightness of Being"). The theme of insignificance was also used in "The Unbearable Lightness of Being".
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Trébla Albert Delvaille, called Trébla (Neuilly-sur-Seine, 30 May 1870 – Paris, October 1943) was a French playwright and novelist.
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Thérèse Desqueyroux (novel) Thérèse Desqueyroux (] ) is the most famous novel by François Mauriac.
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Franz Werfel Franz Viktor Werfel (10 September 1890 – 26 August 1945) was an Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright, and poet whose career spanned World War I, the Interwar period, and World War II. He is primarily known as the author of "The Forty Days of Musa Dagh" (1933, English tr. 1934, 2012), a novel based on events that took place during the Armenian Genocide of 1915, and "The Song of Bernadette" (1941), a novel about the life and visions of the French Catholic saint Bernadette Soubirous, which was made into a Hollywood film of the same name.
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Josef Škvorecký Josef Škvorecký, CM (] ; September 27, 1924 – January 3, 2012) was a Czech-Canadian writer and publisher. He spent half of his life in Canada, publishing and supporting banned Czech literature during the communist era. Škvorecký was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1980. He and his wife were long-time supporters of Czech dissident writers before the fall of communism in that country. Škvorecký's fiction deals with several themes: the horrors of totalitarianism and repression, the expatriate experience, and the miracle of jazz.
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Keith Gessen Keith A. Gessen (born January 9, 1975) is a Russian-born American novelist, journalist, and co-editor of "n+1", a thrice-yearly magazine of literature, politics, and culture based in New York City. He is also an assistant professor of journalism at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. In 2008 he was named a 5 under 35 honoree by the National Book Foundation.
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Bernard Nabonne Bernard Nabonne (1897-1951) was a French writer of bearnaise origin. He is best known for his novels written in the 1920s, for example, "La Butte aux Cailles" (1925) and "Maitena" (1927). The latter won the Prix Renaudot. Other notable works include "Joseph Bonaparte" (1950 Prix Thérouanne), "À la Gasconne" (1935 Prix Paul Flat), and "À l'abandon" (1932 Prix Montyon).
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Pauline Michel Pauline Michel (born 1944 in Asbestos, Quebec) is a Canadian novelist, poet, playwright, songwriter and screenwriter.
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Le Bal (novella) Le Bal is the title of collection of 2 novellas written by Irène Némirovsky. Published in France in 1930, it has been recently re-issued, due to the increasing interest in and popularity of the author's work, following the discovery and publication of Suite Française.
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Stefan Zweig Stefan Zweig ( ; ] ; November 28, 1881 – February 22, 1942) was an Austrian novelist, playwright, journalist and biographer. At the height of his literary career, in the 1920s and 1930s, he was one of the most popular writers in the world.