Fiction

    * Middle Ages
          o anonymous - La Chanson de Roland (The Song of Roland)
          o Chretien de Troyes
              Yvain ou le Chevalier au Lion (Yvain, the Knight of the Lion)
              Lancelot, ou le Chevalier a la charrette (Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart)
          o various
              Tristan et Iseult (Tristan and Iseult)
          o anonymous
            Lancelot-Graal (Lancelot-Grail)
              also known as the prose Lancelot or the Vulgate Cycle
          o Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meung
              Roman de la Rose ("Book of the Rose")
    * 16th century
          o Francois Rabelais
              Gargantua, Pantagruel ("Gargantua and Pantagruel")
    * 17th century
          o Madame de Lafayette
              La Princesse de Cleves
    * 18th century
          o Abbe Prevost
              Manon Lescaut
          o Voltaire
              Candide
              Zadig ou la Destinee
          o Jean-Jacques Rousseau
              Julie, ou la nouvelle Heloise
          o Denis Diderot
              Jacques le fataliste (Jacques the Fatalist)
          o Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
              Les Liaisons dangereuses
    * 19th century
          o Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand
              Atala
              Rene
          o Benjamin Constant
              Adolphe
          o Stendhal
              Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black)
              La Chartreuse de Parme (The Charterhouse of Parma)
          o Honore de Balzac
              La Comedie humaine
                ("The Human Comedy",  a novel cycle which includes
                Pere Goriot, Lost Illusions, and Eugenie Grandet)
          o Alexandre Dumas
              The Count of Monte Cristo
              The Three Musketeers
          o Victor Hugo
              Notre Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre Dame)
              Les Miserables
          o Theophile Gautier
              Mademoiselle de Maupin
          o Gustave Flaubert
              Madame Bovary
              Salammbo
              L'Education sentimentale (Sentimental Education)
          o Jules Verne
              Vingt mille lieues sous les mers (Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea)
              Voyage au centre de la Terre (A Journey to the Center of the Earth)
              Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours (Around the World in Eighty Days)
          o Edmond and Jules de Goncourt
              Germinie Lacerteux
          o Guy de Maupassant
              Bel Ami
              La Parure (The Necklace)
              other short stories
          o Emile Zola
              Therese Raquin
              Les Rougon-Macquart (a novel cycle which includes L'Assommoir, Nana and Germinal)
    * 20th century
          o Andre Gide
              Les Faux-monnayeurs (The Counterfeiters)
              L'Immoraliste (The Immoralist)
          o Marcel Proust
              A la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time)
          o Andre Breton
              Nadja
          o Gaston Leroux
              Le Fantome de l'Opera (The Phantom of the Opera)
          o Louis-Ferdinand Celine
              Voyage au bout de la nuit (Journey to the End of the Night)
          o Colette
              Gigi
          o Jean Genet - Notre-Dame-des-Fleurs
          o Andre Malraux - La Condition humaine (Man's Fate), L'Espoir (Man's Hope)
          o Albert Camus - L'Etranger (The Stranger)
          o Michel Butor - La Modification
          o Marguerite Yourcenar - Memoires d'Hadrien
          o Alain Robbe-Grillet - Dans le labyrinthe
          o Georges Perec - La vie mode d'emploi
          o Robert Pinget - Passacaille
          o Jean-Paul Sartre - LAge de Raison (The Age of Reason)
          o Francoise Sagan - "Bonjour Tristesse", (Hello Sadness) 1954 awarded Prix de Critiques[5]

Poetry

    * Francois Villon - Les Testaments
    * Pierre de Ronsard, Joachim du Bellay and other poets of "La Pleiade" - poems
    * La Fontaine - The Fables
    * Victor Hugo - Les Contemplations
    * Alphonse de Lamartine - Meditations poetiques
    * Charles Baudelaire - Les Fleurs du mal
    * Paul Verlaine - Romances sans paroles
    * Arthur Rimbaud - Une Saison en Enfer
    * Stephane Mallarme - Un coup de des jamais n'abolira le hasard ("A Throw of the Dice Will Never Abolish Chance")
    * Guillaume Apollinaire - Alcools
    * Francis Ponge
    * Raymond Queneau
    * Yves Bonnefoy - Words in Stone
    * Alain Tasso
    * Marie NDiaye - "Quant au riche avenir"

Theatre

    * Pierre Corneille (160684)- Le Cid (1636), Horace
    * Moliere - Tartuffe, Le Misanthrope, Dom Juan, L'Avare (The Miser), Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, L'Ecole des femmes (The School for Wives)
    * Jean Racine - Phedre, Andromaque
    * Marivaux - Jeu de l'amour et du hasard
    * Beaumarchais - Le Barbier de Seville (The Barber of Seville), La Folle journee, ou Le Mariage de Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro)
    * Edmond Rostand - Cyrano de Bergerac
    * Jean Giraudoux - The Trojan War Will Not Take Place
    * Jean Anouilh - Becket, Antigone
    * Jean-Paul Sartre - No Exit
    * Eugene Ionesco - The Bald Soprano, Rhinoceros
    * Jean Genet - The Maids, The Balcony

Nonfiction

    * Michel de Montaigne - The Essays
    * Blaise Pascal - Les Pensees
    * Francois de La Rochefoucauld - The Maxims
    * Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Discourse on the Arts and Sciences, The Social Contract, Les Confessions
    * Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand - Genius of Christianity, Memoirs from Beyond Grave
    * Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy in America
    * Frederick Bastiat - The Law
    * Jules Michelet - Histoire de France, La Sorciere
    * Albert Camus - The Myth of Sisyphus
    * Jean-Paul Sartre - Existentialism is a Humanism, Being and Nothingness

Literary criticism

    * Nicolas Boileau
    * Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve
    * Hippolyte Taine
    * Jacques Lacan
    * Maurice Blanchot
    * Paul Benichou
    * Roland Barthes
    * Michel Foucault
    * Jean-Francois Lyotard
    * Jacques Derrida
    * Julia Kristeva

Poetry
Main article: French poetry

    * Parnassian
    * Romanticism
    * Symbolism (arts)

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French Nobel Prize in Literature winners

For most of the 20th century, French authors had more Literature Nobel Prizes than those of any other nation.[4] The following French or French language authors have won a Nobel Prize in Literature:

    * 1901 - Sully Prudhomme (The first Nobel Prize in literature)
    * 1904 - Frederic Mistral (wrote in Occitan)
    * 1911 - Maurice Maeterlinck (Belgian)
    * 1915 - Romain Rolland
    * 1921 - Anatole France
    * 1927 - Henri Bergson
    * 1937 - Roger Martin du Gard
    * 1947 - Andre Gide
    * 1952 - Francois Mauriac
    * 1957 - Albert Camus
    * 1960 - Saint-John Perse
    * 1964 - Jean-Paul Sartre (declined the prize)
    * 1969 - Samuel Beckett (Irish, wrote in English and French)
    * 1985 - Claude Simon
    * 2000 - Gao Xingjian (writes in Chinese)
    * 2008 - J.M.G. Le Clezio

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    * Turold (eleventh century)
    * Wace (1110  c.1180)
    * Chretien de Troyes (c.1135  c.1183)
    * Richard the Lionheart (Richard Coeur de Lion) (11571199)
    * Benoit de Sainte-Maure (twelfth century)
    * Le Chatelain de Couci (d.1203)
    * Jean Bodel (12th century  c.1210)
    * Conon de Bethune (c.11501220)
    * Geoffroi de Villehardouin (c.1160  c.1213)
    * Beroul (c.1170)
    * Thomas d'Angleterre (c.1170)
    * Gace Brule (c.1170)
    * Marie de France (c.1175)
    * Gautier de Coincy (1177/81236)
    * Gautier de Dargies (c.1170after 1236)
    * Gautier d'Espinal ( before July 1272)
    * Gillebert de Berneville (fl c.1255)
    * Gontier de Soignies (fl c.11801220)
    * Guiot de Dijon (fl c.120030)
    * Perrin d'Angicourt (fl c.124550)
    * Jean Renart (fl. late 12th-first half of 13th century)
    * Philippe de Remi (c.1205c1265)
    * Philippe de Beaumanoir (c.1247c1296)
    * Raoul de Soissons (c.12151272)
    * Richard de Fournival (1201 c.1260)
    * Andrieu Contredit d'Arras ( c.1248)
    * Jehan le Cuvelier d'Arras (fl c.124070)
    * Guillaume le Vinier (fl c.122045; 1245)
    * Audefroi le Batard (fl c.12001230)
    * Jehan Bretel (c.12001272)
    * Jehan Erart ( c.1259)
    * Moniot d'Arras (fl c.125075)
    * Robert de Clari (late twelfth century)
    * Blondel de Nesle (late twelfth century)
    * Robert de Boron (twelfththirteenth century)
    * Guiot de Provins (d. After 1208)
    * Bertrand de Bar-sur-Aube (late twelfth-early thirteenth)
    * Guillaume de Lorris (c.1200  c.1238)
    * Theobald IV of Champagne (12011253)
    * Jean de Joinville ( c.1224  c.1317)
    * Rutebeuf (c.1230  c.1285)
    * Adam de la Halle (c.1250  c.1285)
    * Jean de Meung or Jean de Meun (1250  c.1305) or Jean Clopinel or Chopinel
    * Jacques Bretel (c. 1285  c. 1310)
    * Jean Le Bel (c.12901370)
    * Colin Muset (end of thirteenth century)
    * Guillaume de Machaut ( c.1300  c.1377)
    * Nicole Oresme (13251382)
    * Philippe de Mezieres (c.13271405)
    * Jean Froissart (1333  c.1404)
    * Eustache Deschamps (c.1346  c.1407)
    * Jean Charlier called Gerson (13631429
    * Christine de Pisan (13641430)
    * Alain Chartier (c.1385  c.1435)
    * Jean Juvenal des Ursins (13881473)
    * Antoine de la Sale (1388  c.1469)
    * Enguerrand de Monstrelet (c.1390  c.1453)
    * Charles, duc d'Orleans (13941465)

[edit] Fifteenth century

    * Martin Le Franc (c.14101461)
    * Eustache Marcade (14141440)
    * Georges Chastellain (14151475)
    * Arnoul Greban (c.1420  c.1470)
    * Olivier de la Marche (14251502)
    * Martial d'Auvergne ( c.14301508)
    * Francois Villon (c.1431after 1463)
    * Jean Michel (c.14351501)
    * Jean Molinet (14351507)
    * Philippe de Commines (14451511)
    * Jean Marot (14501526)
    * Lefevre d'Etaples (14551537)
    * Guillaume Cretin (Guillaume Dubois) (14601525)
    * Octavien de Saint-Gelais (14681505)
    * Guillaume Bude (14681540)
    * Jean Meschinot (active from 14501490)
    * Guillaume Alexis (active from 14501490)
    * Jacques Millet (active from 14501466)
    * Henri Baude (active from 14601495)
    * Jean Castel (active from 14601480)
    * Jean Robertet (active from 14601500)
    * Roger de Collerye (14701538)
    * Jean Lemaire de Belges (1473  c.1525)
    * Pierre Gringore or Gringoire (c.14751538/1539)
    * Jean Bouchet (1476  c.1558)
    * Francois Rabelais (c.14831553)
    * Alienor de Poitiers (fl.1484)
    * Mellin de Saint-Gelais (c.14911558)
    * Marguerite de Navarre (c.14921549)
    * Clement Marot (c.14961544)
    * Andre de La Vigne (active from 14851515)
    * Jean d'Auton (active from 14991528)

[edit] Sixteenth century
[edit] 1500-1549

    * Bonaventure des Periers (c.15001544)
    * Maurice Sceve (c.1505  c.1562)
    * Michel de l'Hospital (15051573)
    * Etienne Dolet (15091546)
    * Jean Calvin (15091564)
    * De Cholieres, sieur (sometimes listed as Nicolas de Cholieres) (15091592)
    * Helisenne de Crenne (Marguerite Briet de Crenne) (c.1510after 1552)
    * Pierre Viret (15111571)
    * Thomas Sebillet (c.15121589)
    * Jacques Amyot (15131593)
    * Louis des Masures (c.15151574)
    * Guillaume Bouchet (15151594)
    * Jacques Peletier du Mans (15171582)
    * Theodore de Beze (15191605)
    * Noel du Fail (15201591)
    * Pernette Du Guillet (c.15201545)
    * Jacques Yver (15201570)
    * Gilles de Gouberville (15211578)
    * Pontus de Tyard or de Thiard (15211605)
    * Joachim du Bellay (15221560)
    * Pierre de Ronsard (15241585)
    * Pierre Boaistuau (?1566)
    * Louise Labe (c.1526  c.1565)
    * Jacques Tahureau (15271555)
    * Remy Belleau (15281577)
    * Etienne Pasquier (15291615)
    * Etienne de La Boetie (15301563)
    * Claude Fauchet (15301601)
    * Jean Bodin (15301596)
    * Francois de Belleforest (15301583)
    * Henri Estienne (15311598)
    * Jean Antoine de Baif (15321589)
    * Etienne Jodelle (15321573)
    * Michel de Montaigne (Michel Eyquem, seigneur de Montaigne) (15331592)
    * Jean de la Taille (c.1533/1540  c.1617)
    * Robert Garnier (15341590)
    * Nicolas Rapin (15351608)
    * Jacques Grevin (15381570)
    * Olivier de Serres (15391619)
    * Pierre Pithou (15391596)
    * Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantome (15401614)
    * Pierre de Larivey (15401619)
    * Florent Chrestien (15401596)
    * Pierre Charron (15411603)
    * Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (15441590)
    * Antoine du Verdier (15441600)
    * Pierre Joulet, sieur de Chastillon (15451621)
    * Philippe Desportes (15461606)
    * Pierre de L'Estoile (15461611)
    * Gabrielle Chappuys (1546?  c.1613)
    * Jean de La Ceppede (15481623)
    * Etienne Tabourot des Accords (15491590)
    * Philippe Duplessis-Mornay (Philippe de Mornay, called Duplessis-Mornay) (15491623)

[edit] 1550-1599

    * Benigne Poissenot (c.1550?)
    * Francois d'Amboise (15501619)
    * Odet de Turnebe (15521581)
    * Jean Bertaut (15521611)
    * Theodore Agrippa d'Aubigne (15521630)
    * Franco683)
    * Madame de La * Antoine Francois Prevost (Antoine Francois Prevost d'Exiles) a/k/a Abbe Prevost (16971763)
    * Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand Jean Le Rond d'Alembert (17171783)
    * Michel-Jean Sedaine (17191797)
    * Jacques Cazotte (17201792)
    * Tiphaigne de la Roche (Charles-Francois Tiphaigne de la Roche) (17221774)
    * Baron d'Holbach (Paul Henri Dietrich, baron d'Holbach) 17401805)
    * Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos (17411803)
    * Condorcet (Marie Jean Antoine Caritat, marquis de Condorcet) (17441794)
    * Gabriel Brizard (c17441793)
    * Jean Antoine Roucher (17451794)
    * Jean-Sifrein Maury (Abbe Maury) (17461817)
    * Joseph-omte de Las Cases) (17661842)
    * Benjamin Constant (Benjamin Constant de Rebecque) (17671830)
    * Joseph Fievee (17671839)
    * Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand (17681848)
    * Etienne Pivert de Senancour (1770(17901869)
    * Victor Cousin (1792-1867)
    * Charles Paul de Kock (17931871)
    * Casimir Delavigne (Jean-Francois Casimir Delavigne) (17931843)
    * Augustin Thierry (17951856)
    * Francois Mignet (1796-1884)
  is Henri Charles de Clerel, vicomte de Tocqueville ( 1857)
    * Octave Feuillet (18211890)
    * Jules-Francois-Felix Husson a/k/a Champfleury (18211889)
    * Edmond de Goncourt (18221896)
    * Erckmann-Ch    * Ludovic Halevy (18341908)
    * Jean-Marie Deguignet (18341905)
    * Amelie Gex (Dian de la Jeanna) (18351883)
    * Henry Becque (18371899)
    * Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (18381889)
    * Sully Prudhomme (18391907)
    * Jules Lermina (18391913)
    * Alphonse Daudet (18401897)
    * Emile Zola (1* Georges de Porto-Riche (18491930)

[edit] 1850-1859

    * Guy de Maupassant (18501893)
    * Octave Mirbeau (18501917)
    * Pierre Loti (Julien Viaud) (18501923)
    * Gyp (18501932)
    * Germain Nouveau (18511920)
    * Elemir Bourges (18521925)
    * Paul Bourget (18521935)
    * Alfred Masson-Forestiern (18591936)
    * Henri Bergson (18591941)

[edit] 1860-1869

    * Jules Laforgue (18601887)
    * Paul Margueritte (18601918)
    * Michel Zevaco (18601918)
    * Paul Roux a/k/a Saint-Pol-Roux le Magnifique (18611940)
    * Paul Adam (18621920)
    * Georges Darien (18621921)
    * Georges Feydeau (18621921)
    * Maartier a/k/a "Alain" (18681951)
    * Paul Claudel (18681955)
    * Andre Spire (1 Noel (18831933)
    * Jules Supervielle (18841960
    * Gaston Bachelard (18841962)
    * Georges Duhamel (18841966)
    * Jacques Chardonne (Jacques Boutelleau) (18841968)
    * Jean Paulhan (18841968)
    * Denis Amiel (1884ve (18871976)
    * Marcel Martinet (18871944)
    * Georges Bernanos (18881948)
    * Henri Bosco (18881976)
    * Paul Morand (18881976)
    * Marcel Jouhandeau (18881979)
    * Jacques de Lacretelle (18881985)
    * Charles Silvestre (18891948)
    * Tristan Dereme (18891941)
    * Pie * Georges Bataille (18971962)
    * Joe Bousquet (18971950)
    * Kikou Yamata (18971975)
    * Philippe Soupault (18971990)
    * Marcel Thiry (18971977)
    * Eugene Dabit (18981936)
    * Michel de Ghelderode (18981962)
    * Michel Goffin (18981984)
    * Joseph Kessel (18981979)
    * Paul Vialar (18981996)
    * Geo Norge (18981990)
    * Roger Vitrac (18991952)
    * Jacques Audiberti (18991965)
    * Mari Petiot) (19011965)
    * Lanza del Vasto (19011981)
    * Charles Lecocq (19011922)
    * Michel Leiris (19011990)
    * Suzanne Lilar (19011992)
    * Andre Malraux (19011976)
    * Alexandre Vialatte (19011971)
    * Marcel Ayme (190219071972)
    utourd (1920-2011)
    * Mohammed Dib (19202003)
    * Boris Vian (19201959)
    * Francoise d'Eaubonne (1920...)
    * Jean-Pierre Chabrol (1920...)
    * Albert Memmi (1920...)
    * Georges Brassens (19211981)
    * Gerald Neveu (19211960)
    *eb Yacine (19291989)
    * Nicolas Bouvier (19291998)

1930-1939

    * Francoise Mallet-Joris (1930...)
    * Jacques Ehrmann (19311972)
    * Jack Thieuloy (19311996)
    * Fernando Arrabal (1932...)
    * Mongo Beti (19322001)
    * Hedi Bouraoui (1932...)
    * Claude Pujade-Renaud (1932-...)
    * Jacques Roubaud (1932...)
    * Marcelin Pleynet (1933...)
    * Claude Esteban (19352006)
    * Agota Kristof (1935...)
    * Francoise Sagan (Francoise Quoirez) (19352004)
    * Daniel Zimmermann (19352000)
    * Assia Djebar (1936...)
    * Franketienne (1936...)
    * Jean-Edern Hallier (19361997)
    * Georges Perec (19361982)
    * Philippe Sollers (1936...)
    * Anne-Marie Albiach (1937...)
    * Marc Alyn (1937)
    * Pierre Billon (1937...)
    * Andree Brunin (19371993)
    * Helene Cixous (1937...)
    * Abdelkebir Khatibi (1938...)

1940-1949

    * Annie Ernaux (1940...)
    * J.M.G. Le Clezio (1940...)
    * Maurice Thuiliere (1940...)
    * Emmanuel Hocquard (1940...)
    * Jean Daive (1941...)
    * Julia Kristeva (1941...)
    * Jean Marcel (1941...)
    * Francois Weyergans(1941...)
    * Josaphat-Robert Large (1942...)
    * Yves Manglou (1943...)
    * Rene-Louis Baron (1944...)
    * Tahar Ben Jelloun (1944...)
    * Doumbi Fakoly (1944...)
    * Daniel Pennac (1944...)
    * Noelle Chatelet (1944-...)
    * Francoise Chandernagor (1945...)
    * Tony Duvert (1945...)
    * Pierre Michon (1945...)
    * Gisele Bienne (1946-...)
    * Renaud Camus (1946...)
    * Elisabeth Vonarburg (1947...)
    * Rene Fregni (1947...)
    * Jean-Pierre Poccioni(1948...)
    * Amin Maalouf (1949...)
    * Didier Daeninckx (1949...)
    * Pierre Bergounioux (1949...)
    * Boualem Sansal (1949-...)

1950 to today

    * Bernard Bonnejean (1950-...)
    * Jean-Paul Dubois (1950...)
    * Moussa Konate (1951...)
    * Salim Jay (1951...)
    * Dan Franck (1952...)
    * Charbel Tayah (1953...)
    * Dany Laferriere (1953...)
    * Francoise Bettencourt Meyers (1953-...)
    * Gerard Caramaro (fr) (1953...)
    * Nancy Huston (1953...)
    * Patrick Chamoiseau (1953...)
    * Francois Bon (1953...)
    * Paul Dirmeikis (1954)
    * Tahar Djaout (19541993)
    * Dai Sijie (1954)
    * Pascale Roze (1954)
    * Didier Hallepee (1955-...)
    * Jean-Pierre Vallotton (1955-...)
    * Caroline Lamarche (1955-...)
    * Jean-Pierre Thiollet (1956...)
    * Khal Torabully (1956)
    * Herve Le Tellier (1957...)
    * Youssef Rzouga (1957...)
    * Jean-Philippe Toussaint (1957...)
    * Azouz Begag (1957...)
    * Michel Houellebecq (1958...)
    * Marc-Edouard Nabe (1958...)
    * Denis Robert (1958...)
    * Benjamin Sehene (1959...)
    * Christine Angot (1959...)
    * Frederic-Yves Jeannet (1959...)
    * Jacques Bonjawo (1960...)
    * Xavier Hanotte (1960...)
    * Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt (1960...)
    * Simonetta Greggio (1961...)
    * Bernard Werber (1961...)
    * Charles Dantzig (1961...)
    * Philippe Claudel (1962...)
    * Beatrice Hammer (1963...)
    * Frederic Lenormand (1964...)
    * Patrick Lowie (1964...)
    * Olivia Rosenthal (1965...)
    * Ann Scott (1965...)
    * Jose Da Silveira (1965...)
    * Francoise Nimal (1967...)
    * Jonathan Littell (1967...)
    * Amelie Nothomb (1967...)
    * Loic Barriere (1967...)
    * Herve Caumont (1968...)
    * Christophe Ferre (1968...)
    * Virginie Despentes (1969...)
    * Louis Emond (1969...)
    * Antoine Bello (1970...)
    * Christophe Honore (1970...)
    * Nicolas Ancion (1971-...)
    * Luis de Miranda (1971-...)
    * Roland Michel Tremblay (1972...)
    * Yves Trottier (1973...)
    * Tanguy Viel (1973...)
    * Romain Sardou (1974...)
    * Guillaume Musso (1974-...)
    * Olivier Adam (1974-...)
    * Arno Bertina (1975...)
    * Emily Tanimura (1979-...)