Born 150 years ago this week, the author was known for her incisive portrayals of women’s everyday lives Colette Fountain Walking past the Moulin Rouge on the evening of January 3, 1907, passers-by ...

French author Annie Ernaux won this year’s Nobel Prize in literature Thursday for blending fiction and autobiography in books that fearlessly mine her experiences as a working-class woman to explore ...

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Victor Brombert, the Henry Putnam University Professor of Romance and Comparative Literatures, and an authority on French literature of the 19th and 20th centuries, died peacefully in his sleep at ...

David Bellos, renowned scholar of French fiction and celebrated translator, died at his holiday home in the village of Doussard in the French Alps, on Oct. 26. He was 80. Bellos, the Meredith Howland ...

“The Postcard,” a novel by the French author Anne Berest, opens on a snowy morning in a Parisian suburb: “My mother lit her first lung-charring cigarette of the morning, the one she enjoyed most, and ...