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Alain Robbe-Grillet, one of France’s most unconventional and controversial authors, screenwriters and film directors of the post-war era, died in the western French city of Caen on February 18. He was ...

Alain Robbe-Grillet was a French writer and filmmaker. He was, along with Nathalie Sarraute, Michel Butor and Claude Simon, one of the figures most associated with the Nouveau Roman (new novel) trend.

Alain Robbe-Grillet, known as the enfant terrible of the French literary establishment, has died at age 85. Robbe-Grillet, who pioneered a style in the 1950s and 1960s called the "new novel," died ...

An agronomist who specialised in diseases affecting tropical fruit, Alain Robbe-Grillet might once have seemed an unlikely candidate for the esteemed heights of the Académie francaise. It wasn't until ...

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Alain Robbe-Grillet: refused to wear the prescribed outfit on joining Académie Française: 'it is I who am honouring them' Alain Robbe-Grillet, who died on Monday aged 85 was the leading light of the ...

PARIS -- French novelist-turned-filmmaker Alain Rob-be-Grillet died Monday at the age of 85, the Gallic-language academy L'Academie Francaise reported. By Rebecca Leffler, The Associated Press PARIS — ...