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This is a list of novelists from France. Novelists in this list should be notable in some way, and have Wikipedia articles on them.
See also French novelists Category Index.
Born before 1800 edit
- Honoré d'Urfé (1568–1625)
- Charles Sorel (c. 1602–1674)
- Madeleine de Scudéry (1607–1701)
- Madame de Lafayette (1634–1693), author of La Princesse de Clèves
- Alain-René Le Sage (1668–1747)
- Pierre de Marivaux (1688–1763)
- Voltaire (1694–1778), philosophe, satirist, playwright, author of Candide
- Françoise de Graffigny (1695–1758), author of Lettres d'une Péruvienne
- Abbé Prévost (1697–1763), author of Manon Lescaut
- Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon (1707–1777)
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778), philosophe, author of Julie, or the New Heloise
- Denis Diderot (1713–1784), philosophe, author of Rameau's Nephew
- Marie Jeanne Riccoboni (1714–1792)
- Restif de la Bretonne (1734–1806)
- Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (1737–1814), author of Paul et Virginie
- Marquis de Sade (1740–1814), author of "Dialogue Between a Priest and a Dying Man", Justine, The 120 Days of Sodom, Philosophy in the Bedroom, and Juliette
- Choderlos de Laclos (1741–1803), author of Les Liaisons dangereuses
- Anne Louise Germaine de Staël (1766–1817)
- Benjamin Constant (1767–1830), author of Adolphe
- Sophie de Renneville (1772–1822), writer, editor, journalist
- François-René de Chateaubriand (1768–1848), author of Atala and René
- Étienne Pivert de Senancour (1770–1846)
- Charles Nodier (1780–1844)
- Stendhal (1783–1842), author of The Red and the Black, considered by some to be the first modern novel, and The Charterhouse of Parma
- Élise Voïart, (1786–1866), writer and translator
- Charles Paul de Kock (1793–1871)
- Antoinette Henriette Clémence Robert (1797–1872)
- Charles Dezobry (1798–1871), historian and historical novelist
- Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850), author of La Comédie Humaine, a series of novels presenting a full picture of France in the early 19th century
Born 1800–1900 edit
- Alexandre Dumas, père (1802–1870), author of The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers
- Victor Hugo (1802–1885), author of The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Les Misérables
- Prosper Mérimée (1803–1870), author of Carmen
- Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1804–1869)
- George Sand (1804–1876), pseudonym of Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin, Baroness Dudevant
- Eugène Sue (1804–1857)
- Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly (1808–1889)
- Alfred de Musset (1810–1857)
- Théophile Gautier (1811–1872)
- Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880), author of Madame Bovary and Sentimental Education
- Edmond de Goncourt (1822–1896)
- Henri Murger (1822–1861), author of Scènes de la vie de bohème
- Alexandre Dumas, fils (1824–1895), author of La Dame aux camélias
- Edmond About (1828–1885)
- Jules Verne (1828–1905), writer of techno-thrillers like Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea, and founding father of science fiction
- Pauline Cassin Caro (1828/34/35 - 1901), novelist
- Jules de Goncourt (1830–1870)
- Hector Malot (1830–1907)
- Émile Gaboriau (1832–1873), pioneer of modern detective fiction
- Jules Vallès (1832-1885)
- Eugène Le Roy (1836–1907)
- Alphonse Daudet (1840–1897)
- Émile Zola (1840–1902), naturalist, author of Germinal and Nana
- Anatole France (1844–1924)
- Léon Bloy (1846–1917)
- Brada (1847-1938)
- Joris-Karl Huysmans (1848–1907), author of À rebours and Là-bas
- Guy de Maupassant (1850–1893)
- Pierre Loti (1850–1923)
- Élémir Bourges (1852–1925)
- Paul Bourget (1852–1935)
- René Bazin (1853–1932)
- Adolphe Chenevière (1855–19??)
- Maurice Barrès (1862–1923)
- Henri de Régnier (1864–1936)
- Jules Renard (1864–1910)
- Mathilde Alanic (1864-1948)
- Marie Léra (1864-1958)
- Juliette Heuzey (1865-1952)
- Romain Rolland (1866–1944), Nobel Prize in Literature, 1915
- Gaston Leroux (1868–1927), author of The Phantom of the Opera and The Mystery of the Yellow Room which is recognized as the first locked room puzzle mystery novel
- Gabrielle Réval (1869-1938)
- André Gide (1869–1951)
- Henry Bordeaux (1870–1963)
- Marcel Proust (1871–1922), author of In Search of Lost Time, sometimes seen as the greatest modernist novel
- Colette (1873–1954), best known for Gigi and Chéri
- Alfred Jarry (1873–1907), satirist, inventor of Pataphysics
- Fanny Clar (1875-1944)
- Louisa Emily Dobrée (fl. c. 1877–1917)
- Roger Martin du Gard (1881–1958), Nobel Prize in Literature, 1937
- Louis Pergaud (1882–1915)
- Rose Combe (1883–1932)[1]
- Georges Duhamel (1884–1966)
- François Mauriac (1885–1970), Nobel Prize in Literature, 1952
- Jules Romains (1885–1972)
- Alain-Fournier (1886–1914)
- Ève Paul-Margueritte (1885-1971)
- Lucie Paul-Margueritte (1886-1955)
- René Maran (1887-1960)
- Georges Bernanos (1888–1948)
- Adrien Bertrand (1888–1917)
- Henri Bosco (1888–1976)
- Pierre Drieu La Rochelle (1893–1945) , author of Gilles and The Fire Within
- Louis Ferdinand Céline (1894–1961), author of Journey to the End of the Night and Death on the Installment Plan or Mort à Crédit
- Rose Celli (1895–1982)
- Henri de Montherlant (1895–1972)
- Jean Giono (1895–1970)
Born in or after 1900 edit
- Julien Green (1900–1998)
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900–1944)
- Nathalie Sarraute (1900–1999)
- André Malraux (1901–1976)
- Marie-Magdeleine Carbet (1902-1996)
- Irène Némirovsky (1903–1942), author of Suite française
- Raymond Queneau (1903–1976)
- Pierre Herbart (1903–1974)
- Marguerite Yourcenar (1903–1987)
- Raymond Radiguet (1903–1923)
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–1980), Nobel Prize in Literature, 1964
- Jeanine Delpech (1905-1992)
- Louise Aslanian (1906–1945), pseudonym "Las", author of "The Way of doubt".
- Pauline Réage (1907–1998)
- Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986)
- Paul Berna (1908–1994)
- Alix André (1909-2000)
- Jean Genet (1910–1986)
- Jean-Louis Baghio'o (1910-1994)
- Raphaël Tardon (1911-1967)
- Henri Troyat (1911–2007)
- Pierre Boulle (1912–1994), author of The Bridge on the River Kwai and Planet of the Apes
- Albert Camus (1913–1960), Nobel Prize in Literature, 1957
- Gilbert Cesbron (1913–1979)
- Claude Simon (1913–2005), Nobel Prize in Literature, 1985
- Romain Gary (1914–1980), winner of the Goncourt prize twice, 1956, and 1975 under the pseudonym of Emile Ajar
- Marguerite Duras (1914–1996)
- Joseph Zobel (1915-2006)
- Maurice Druon (1918–2009)
- Boris Vian (1920–1959)
- Alain Robbe-Grillet (1922–2008)
- Salvat Etchart (1924-1985)
- Michel Tournier (1924-2016)
- Philippe Daudy (1925–1994)
- Michel Butor (1926-2016)
- Édouard Glissant (1928-2011)
- André Schwarz-Bart (1928-2006)
- Sébastien Japrisot (1931–2003)
- Emmanuelle Arsan (1932-2005)
- Jean Bernabé (1942-2017)
- Régine Deforges (1935-2014)
- Françoise Sagan (1935–2004)
- Georges Perec (1936–1982)
- Maryse Condé (born 1937)
- J.M.G. Le Clézio (born 1940), Nobel Prize in Literature, 2008
- Annie Ernaux (born 1940), Nobel Prize in Literature, 2022
- Marie-Reine de Jaham (born 1940)
- Patrick Modiano (born 1945), Nobel Prize in Literature, 2014
- Daniel Maximin (born 1947)
- Raphaël Confiant (born 1951)
- Carole Achache (1952–2016)
- Kama Sywor Kamanda(born 1952)
- Patrick Chamoiseau (born 1953)
- Nancy Huston (born 1953)
- Gisèle Pineau (born 1956)
- Fred Vargas (born 1957)
- Michel Houellebecq (born 1958), Impact award winner
- Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt (born 1960)
- Charles Dantzig (born 1961)
- Pavel Hak (born 1962)
- Beatrice Hammer (born 1963)
- Nadine Ribault (1964–2021)
- Sedef Ecer (born 1965)
- Jeanne-A Debats (born 1965)
- Basile Panurgias (born 1967)
- Fabienne Kanor (born 1970)
- Laurent Binet (born 1972)
- Maëlle Guillaud (born 1974)[2]
- Tristan Garcia (born 1981)