List of French Jews - Writers and Poets

Writers and Poets

• Tristan Bernard (1866–1947) playwright & novelist, father of Raymond Bernard and Jean-Jacques Bernard
• Jean-Jacques Bernard (1888–1974) playwright, Son of Tristan Bernard & brother of Raymond Bernard
• Henri Bernstein (1876–1953) playwright
• Henri Blowitz (1825-1903) Bohemian-born journalist
• Paul Celan (1920–1970) Romanian-born poet
• Romain Gary (1914–1980) Russian Empire-born novelist
• René Goscinny (1926–1977) comic book author and editor, co-creator of Asterix.
• Élie Halévy (1760-1826) Bavarian-born French Hebrew poet, author and secretary of the Jewish community of Paris. Father of Fromental Halévy and Léon Halévy.
• Max Jacob (1876–1944) poet
• Edmond Jabès (1912–1991) Egyptian-born poet
• Joseph Joffo (1931–) writer
• Gabriel Josipovici (1940–) novelist
• Gustave Kahn (1859–1936) poet & art critic
• Joseph Kessel (1898–1979) Argentinian-born novelist & journalist
• Justine Lévy (1974–) novelist, daughter of Bernard-Henri Lévy
• André Maurois (1885–1967) author
• Albert Memmi (1921–) Tunisian-born novelist & sociologist
• Catulle Mendès (1841-1909) poet and man of letters (half Jewish)
• Patrick Modiano (1945–) writer (half Jewish)
• Nine Moati (1938–) Tunisian-born novelist Les Belles de Tunis & screenwriter. Sister of Serge Moati.
• Irène Némirovsky (1903–1942) writer
• Georges Perec (1936–1982) novelist
• Marcel Proust (1871–1922) writer (half Jewish)
• Yasmina Reza (1959–) playwright
• Nathalie Sarraute (1900–1999) Russian-born writer
• Jean-Jacques Schuhl (1941–) writer
• Anne Sinclair (1948–) political journalist; wife of Dominique Strauss-Kahn
• André Suarès (1868–1948) poet
• Elsa Triolet (1896-1970) Russian-born novelist
• Tristan Tzara (1896–1963) Romanian-born poet
• Ilarie Voronca (1903–1946) Romanian-born poet & essayist
• Bernard Werber (1961–) best-selling author