11.   Together, they published Heinrich Boll, Eugenio Montale, William S. Burroughs and Samuel Beckett as well as many modern French novelists.

12.   Other recipients include German writer Guenter Grass, Swedish film director Ingmar Bergman and French novelist Simone de Beauvoir.

13.   Assouline also mentioned French novelist Michel Tournier and poet Yves Bonnefoy as possible choices.

14.   Firefighters managed to beat back the fire, which at one point threatened the historic house of deceased French novelist Marcel Pagnol in the district of Treille.

15.   Jean Verne, great-grandson of the French novelist, said he loaned the book to Piccard to bring the balloonist luck.

16.   Maurice Barres, a French novelist and politician had an interesting remark about political acrobats.

17.   French novelist Clarisse Nicoidski died of cancer on Monday near Paris, two months after the death of her painter husband Robert Nicoidski, her publisher said on Thursday.

18.   French novelist and literary critic Natalie Sarraute had told him he could be more famous as a writer than as a designer, he confided.

19.   A niece of the late Belgian-born French detective novelist Georges Simenon was on trial in a Brussels court Tuesday charged with murdering her lover two years ago.

20.   Lucien Daudet, the younger son of French novelist Alphonse Daudet, enjoyed a long friendship with Proust.