Find out more about the greatest 21st Century French Writers, including Sophie Marceau, Jean-Luc Godard, Michel Houellebecq, Betsy Drake and Mylène Farmer
Jean-Luc Godard
03 December 1930
Alejandro Jodorowsky17 February 1929
Claude Lanzmann27 November 1925
Mylène Farmer12 September 1961
Michel Houellebecq26 February 1956
Anna Karina22 September 1940
Bertrand Cantat05 March 1964
Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark11 June 1934
René Girard25 December 1923
Julia Kristeva24 June 1941
George Steiner23 April 1929
Betsy Drake11 September 1923
Alain Badiou17 January 1937
Olivier Assayas25 January 1955
Bruno Latour22 June 1947
Ovidie25 August 1980
Catherine Breillat13 July 1948
Eduard Limonov22 February 1943
Matthieu Ricard15 February 1946
Michel Onfray01 January 1959
Clara Morgane25 January 1981
Anne Wiazemsky14 May 1947
Claude Lelouch30 October 1937
Emmanuelle Riva24 February 1927
Virginie Despentes13 June 1969
Raffaëla Anderson08 January 1976
Fred Vargas07 June 1957
Marina Vlady10 May 1938
Jacques Rivette01 March 1928
Robert Faurisson25 January 1929
Gao Xingjian04 January 1940
Yasmina Reza01 May 1959
Bernard Werber18 September 1961
Jacques Attali01 November 1943
Marc Levy16 October 1961
Sophie Calle09 October 1953
Tzvetan Todorov01 March 1939
Paul Virilio04 January 1932
Edgar Morin08 July 1921
Jean Raspail05 July 1925
Breyten Breytenbach16 September 1939
Michel Serres01 September 1930
Jean-Luc Marion03 July 1946
Raphaël Enthoven09 November 1975
Pierre Lemaitre19 April 1951
Alain Finkielkraut30 June 1949
François Gautier26 July 1959
Keren Ann10 March 1974
Bertrand Tavernier25 April 1941
Pascal Bruckner15 December 1948
Joann Sfar28 August 1971
Fernando Arrabal11 August 1932
André Glucksmann19 June 1937
Frederic Beigbeder21 September 1965
Éric Zemmour31 August 1958
Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt28 March 1960
Étienne Balibar23 April 1942
