Patrick Modiano

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1. Patrick Modiano

   Author of Dora Bruder, Un pedigree, La Place de l'étoile

2. Romain Gary

   Author of The Life Before Us, Promise at Dawn, The Roots of Heaven

3. Jean Echenoz

   Author of I'm Gone: A Novel, Chopin's Move, Cherokee

4. J. M. G. Le Clézio

   Author of Desert, Diego et Frida, La Quarantaine

5. Philippe Claudel

   Author of By a Slow River, Monsieur Linh and His Child, Le Café de l'Excelsior

6. Emmanuel Carrère

   Author of Class Trip, D'autres vies que la mienne, Un roman russe

7. Albert Cohen

   Author of Belle du Seigneur, Solal, Mangeclous

8. Marcel Proust

   Author of The Fugitive; or Albertine Disparue; or The Sweet Cheat Gone, The Guermantes Way: Part 2, The Guermantes Way: Part 1

9. Willem Elsschot

   Author of Lijmen ; Het been, Villa des Roses, Een ontgoocheling

10. Marguerite Yourcenar

    Author of The Abyss, Dear Departed, The Dark Brain of Piranesi: and Other Essays

11. Philippe Delerm

    Author of La Première Gorgée de bière et autres plaisirs minuscules, La sieste assassinée, Il avait plu tout le dimanche

12. Joseph Roth

    Author of The Radetzky March, Job: The Story of a Simple Man, Tarabas

13. Pierre Michon

    Author of Vies Minuscules, Les onze, Corps du Roi

14. Raymond Queneau

    Author of Exercises in Style, Zazie dans le métro, Pierrot Mon Ami (French Literature)

15. Michel Tournier

    Author of The Ogre (US) / The Erl-King (UK), The Four Wise Men, The Golden Droplet

16. Georges Perec

    Author of W, or The Memory of Childhood, Things: A Story of the Sixties, Un cabinet d'amateur

17. Georges Simenon

    Author of Maigret and the Man on the Boulevard, The Madman of Bergerac, Maigret Returns

18. Tonino Benacquista

    Author of Saga, Holy Smoke, Les Morsures de l'aube

19. Jean-Paul Dubois

    Author of Une vie française - Prix Femina 2004, Vous plaisantez, monsieur Tanner

20. Stefan Zweig

    Author of Confusion: The Private Papers of Privy Councillor R. von D., Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman, Amok: a Story