What is France Famous/Known For?
9Nobel Prize Literature Winners
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France has the highest number of Nobel Prize Literature awardees than any other country in the world. The number of Nobel Literature winners from France is 16. France is the country with the most winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature worldwide. Today, with the recognition of the novelist Patrick Modiano with this award, there are 15 Gallic writers who have obtained this recognition. They are:
Patrick Modiano in 2014
J.M.G. Le Clézio in 2008
Gao Xingjian, born in China, in 2000
Claude Simon, born in Madagascar, in 1985
Jean-Paul Sartre in 1964, although he rejected it
Saint-John Perse in 1960
Albert Camus, born in Algeria, in 1957
François Mauriac in 1952
André Gide in 1947
Roger Martin du Gard in 1937
Henri Bergson in 1927
Anatole France in 1921
Romain Rolland in 1915
Frédéric Mistral in 1904
Sully Prudhomme in 1901. Click the next ARROW to see the next photo!
