Editing French literature (section)

==French Nobel Prize in Literature winners==
[[File:Henri Fantin-Latour - By the Table - Google Art Project.jpg|300px|thumb|[[Paul Verlaine]] (far left) and [[Arthur Rimbaud]] (second to left) in an 1872 painting by Henri Fantin-Latour.]]
[[File:Walk Samuel Beckett, Paris (France) - Philippe Binant Archives.JPG|thumb|[[Samuel Beckett]] Walk, Paris (France). Nobel Prize 1969.]]
[[File:Jean Ricardou and Claude Simon (Cerisy, France) - Philippe Binant Archives.jpg|thumb|Seminar with [[Claude Simon]], Cerisy (France). Nobel Prize 1985.]]
[[File:Littérature contemporaine, France, 1980 - Philippe Binant Archives.jpg|thumb|French [[contemporary literature]] workshop with Marc Avelot, Philippe Binant, Bernard Magné, Claudette Oriol-Boyer, [[Jean Ricardou]], Cerisy (France), 1980.]]

For most of the 20th century, French authors had more Literature [[Nobel Prize]]s than those of any other nation.<ref>National Literature Nobel Prize shares 1901–2009 [http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/lit.html by citizenship at the time of the award] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140805233255/http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/lit.html |date=August 5, 2014 }} and [http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/litnat.html by country of birth] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140805220135/http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/litnat.html |date=August 5, 2014 }}. From [[Jürgen Schmidhuber|J. Schmidhuber]] (2010), [http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/nobelshare.html Evolution of National Nobel Prize Shares in the 20th Century] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140327012415/http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/nobelshare.html |date=March 27, 2014 }} at [https://arxiv.org/abs/1009.2634 arXiv:1009.2634v1] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160415163358/http://arxiv.org/abs/1009.2634 |date=April 15, 2016 }}</ref> The following French or French language authors have won a [[Nobel Prize in Literature]]:
*1901 – [[Sully Prudhomme]] (The first Nobel Prize in Literature)
*1904 – [[Frédéric Mistral]] (wrote in [[Occitan language|Occitan]])
*1915 – [[Romain Rolland]]
*1921 – [[Anatole France]]
*1927 – [[Henri Bergson]]
*1937 – [[Roger Martin du Gard]]
*1947 – [[André Gide]]
*1952 – [[François Mauriac]]
*1957 – [[Albert Camus]]
*1960 – [[Saint-John Perse]]
*1964 – [[Jean-Paul Sartre]] (declined the prize)
*1969 – [[Samuel Beckett]] (Irish, wrote in English and French)
*1985 – [[Claude Simon]]
*2008 – [[J. M. G. Le Clézio]]
*2014 – [[Patrick Modiano]]
*2022 – [[Annie Ernaux]]