French literature awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, but he declined it, stating that "It is not the same thing if I sign Jean-Paul Sartre or if I sign Jean-Paul Sartre, Nobel Prize winner. A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution, even if it takes place in the most honorable form." For most of the 20th century, French authors had more Literature Nobel Prizes than those of any other nation. The following French or French language authors have won a Nobel Prize in Literature: French literature French literature is, generally speaking, literature written in the French
Kathleen Sully hopeful and desolating climax... Her book will either disgust you or do what it did to me, purge you with pity and frighten you with its sense of loneliness." Writing in the Sunday Times, Anthony Rhodes called it "one of the finest novels of its kind I have read." Her next book, published in 1956, "Canaille" collected two short novels, "For What We Receive" and "The Weeping and The Laughter." In his review for The Observer, John Wain called Sully "a writer of originality and power. In ..."Canaille", these qualities are so much to the fore that one never knows