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Born 1910 • Rufisque • Senegal
Died December 25, 1961 (aged 51) • Dakar • Senegal
Notable Works “Maïmouna: petite fille noire” • “Modou-Fatim” • “Tounka, nouvelle”
Ousmane Sembène
Senegalese writer and director
Sheikh Hamidou Kane
Senegalese author
Ousmane Socé
Senegalese writer and politician
Louis-Alexandre Chatrian
French author
Émile Erckmann
French author
Voltaire
Voltaire
French philosopher and author
Stendhal, oil painting by Pierre-Joseph Dedreux-Dorcy; in the Bibliothèque Municipale de Grenoble, France.
Stendhal
French author
Samuel Beckett, 1965
Samuel Beckett
Irish author
Honoré de Balzac
Honoré de Balzac
French author
Émile Zola.
Émile Zola
French author
Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert
French author
Marcel Proust
Marcel Proust
French writer
Guy de Maupassant
Guy de Maupassant
French writer
Vigny, lithograph by Antoine Maurin, 1832
Alfred-Victor, count de Vigny
French author
Marquis de Sade
Marquis de Sade
French author
Albert Camus
Albert Camus
French author
Alphonse Daudet
Alphonse Daudet
French author
Annie Ernaux
Annie Ernaux
French author
Colette
Colette
French writer
Mérimée, detail of an engraving after a drawing by A. Devéria, c. 1832
Prosper Mérimée
French author