His first work, based on his novel Un Homme qui dort, was co-directed by Bernard Queysanne, and won him the Prix Jean Vigo in 1974.

In 1938 Lussu's novel Un anno sull ' altipiano (" A Year on the Plateau "), was published in Paris.

* In John Connolly's 2009 novel The Lovers, the two evil angels Anmael and Semjaza each have a letter tattooed or burned on one arm ( Un for Anmael and Fam for Semjaza, although Connolly misidentifies Un as " Und ").

The screenplay was written by Ennio De Concini, Pietro Germi, Alfredo Giannetti, and Agenore Incrocci ; based on the novel Un delitto d ' onore ( Crime of Honor ) by Giovanni Arpino.

His later novels include La Terre promise ( 1892 ); Cosmopolis ( 1892 ), a psychological novel, with Rome as a background ; Une Idylle tragique ( 1896 ); La Duchesse bleue ( 1897 ); Le Fantôme ( 1901 ); Les Deux Sœurs ( 1905 ); and some volumes of shorter stories — Complications sentimentales ( 1896 ), the powerful Drames de famille ( 1898 ), and Un Homme d ' affaires ( 1900 ).

His best known novel is Un Mâle ( 1881 ).

In 1994 his novel Un Aller simple won the Prix Goncourt.

Robbe-Grillet wrote his first novel A Regicide ( Un Régicide ) in 1949, but it was rejected by Gallimard, a major French publishing house, and only later published with minor corrections by his lifelong publisher Les Editions de Minuit in 1978.

* In March 2012, Frederic Lenormand, author of 18 Judge Dee's New Cases ( Fayard 2004-2011 ), published at Editions Philippe Picquier Un Thé chez Confucius ( A Tea with Confucius ), first novel of his new series, The Judge Bao Cases.

In 1922, he wrote the novel Un Ollo de Vidro and in 1924 he joined the Seminário de Estudos Galegos (" Seminar of Galician Studies ") and founded the Coral Polifónica de Pontevedra (" Pontevedra Polyphonic Choir "; as he was an amateur musician ).

Later in 2007 and 2008, Dupuis began working on several new film projects, including: as Charles in Truffe (" Truffle "), directed by Kim Nguyen, produced by Renée Gosselin and distributed by Christal Films, whose world première opens the Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal on July 3, 2008 ; as Jean-Paul Mercier in " L ' Instinct de Mort " (" Mesrine: Killer Instinct "), part 1 of Public Enemy Number One, a two-part feature film about notorious French gangster Jacques Mesrine, played by Vincent Cassel, directed by Jean-François Richet ; as Mr. Turcotte in " Un été sans point ni coup sûr " (" A No-Hit No-Run Summer "), a baseball feature film set at the beginning of the 1960s adapted from the novel of that title by Marc Robitaille, directed by Francis Leclerc ; as Scully in " The Timekeeper ", an English-language feature film directed by Louis Bélanger ;, as Irishman Liam Hennessy in André Forcier's Je me souviens and as another character named Charles in " Les doigts croches " ( 2008 ), directed by Ken Scott.

For this novel, Shah was awarded the Premio Internazionale in the Un Mondi di Bambini category of the Almalfi Coast Literary Festival in July 2010 for translated fiction.

The first major novel of his second period to be published was thus Un Roi sans divertissement ( published in 1947, and made into a successful film, for which Giono himself wrote the screenplay, in 1963 ).

His first novel, Un dimanche à la piscine à Kigali, which documents the Rwandan genocide of 1994, was published in 2000.

A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali ( original French title: Un dimanche à la piscine à Kigali ) is the first novel by Montreal author Gil Courtemanche, originally published in 2000.

Under Ortiz's guidance Călinescu made his first translations from Italian ; during his student days he translated Giovanni Papini's autobiographical novel Un uomo finito and a novella from Boccaccio's Decameron.

This was followed by his first novel, Un Mundo para Julius, published in 1970 that became a big success and counts today as one of the classics of Latin American literature.

He won the Prix Interallié in 2003 for his novel Windows on the World and the Prix Renaudot in 2009 for his book Un roman français.

Scene from The Happy Land, showing the scandalous impersonation of William Ewart Gladstone | Gladstone, Robert Lowe, 1st Viscount Sherbrooke | Lowe, and Acton Smee Ayrton | AyrtonSeveral of W. S. Gilbert's early plays were staged here, including Randall's Thumb, Creatures of Impulse ( with music by Alberto Randegger ), Great Expectations ( adapted from the Dickens novel ), and On Guard ( all in 1871 ); The Happy Land ( 1873, with Gilbert Abbott à Beckett ; Gilbert's most controversial play ); The Wedding March, translated from Un Chapeau de Paille d ' Italie by Eugène Marin Labiche ( 1873 ); The Blue-Legged Lady, translated from La Dame aux Jambes d ' Azur by Labiche and Marc-Michel ( 1874 ); and Broken Hearts ( 1875 ).

* Un milagro en equilibrio ( 2004 ), novel ( A Miracle in the Balance )

* Un Homme pareil aux autres ( novel, 1947 )

Edited, with an Afterword, by Sharrar, Avery Hopwood's The Great Bordello, a Story of the Theatre, is a roman à clef that tells the story of Edwin Endsleigh — Hopwood ’ s fictional counterpart — who graduates from the University of Michigan and heads for Broadway to earn his fortune and the security to pursue his one true dream of writing the great American novel.

In 1939, Nagib Mahfuz wrote the novel Khufu's Wisdom, which leans on the stories of Papyrus Westcar ; In 1997, French author Guy Brachet composed the novel series Le roman des pyramides, including five volumes, of which the first two ( Le temple soleil and Rêve de pierre ) are picking out Khufu and his tomb as a theme.

Contemporaneously to English Gothic, parallel Romantic literary movements developed in continental Europe: the roman noir (" black novel ") in France, by such writers as François Guillaume Ducray-Duminil, Gaston Leroux, Baculard d ' Arnaud, and Stéphanie Félicité Ducrest de St-Albin, Madame de Genlis and the Schauerroman (" shudder novel ") in Germany by such writers as Friedrich Schiller, author of The Ghost-Seer ( 1789 ) and Christian Heinrich Spiess, author of Das Petermännchen ( 1791 / 92 ).

* Nouveau roman, a type of French novel

* La Voiture embourbée ( 1714 ) — an " improvised " novel ( roman impromptu )

Other important prizes include the grand prix de littérature ( for a literary work ), the grand prix du roman ( for a novel ), the grand prix de poésie ( for poetry ), the grand prix de philosophie ( for a philosophical work ), and the grand prix Gobert ( for a work on French history ).

The Six Gallery reading informs the second chapter of Kerouac's 1958 novel The Dharma Bums, whose chief protagonist is " Japhy Ryder ", Kerouac's roman à clef for Gary Snyder.

Roman à clef or roman à clef (), French for " novel with a key ", is a phrase used to describe a novel about real life, overlaid with a façade of fiction.

Kolish characterizes Cooper ’ s book as “ un texte qui se situe à mi-chemin entre le roman historique et l ’ essai journalistique anti-esclavagiste ” ( a text that is situated halfway between an historical novel and a journalistic anti-slavery essay ).

In 1999, author Douglas A. Martin published a novel, Outline of My Lover, in which the narrator has a six-year romantic relationship with the unnamed lead singer of a successful Athens, Georgia-based, rock band ; the book was widely speculated, and later confirmed by its author, to have been a roman à clef based on a real relationship between Martin and Stipe.

" His 1884 novel L ’ Évadé: roman canaque helped shaped the legend of the deportation.

In 1997, French author Guy Brachet composed the novel series Le roman des pyramides, including five volumes, of which the first two ( Le temple soleil and Rêve de pierre ) are picking out Khufu and his tomb as a theme.

* Le roman selon les romanciers: bibliographie critique de l ' Université McGill ( French ) Inventory and analysis of Marcel Aymé's non-novelistic writings about the novel

Dean appears as the “ yellow roman candle ” that catalyzes the action of the novel.

As one reviewer put it: it " is a con-fusion ... of historical novel, roman à thèse, epistolary novel, roman à clef, nouveau roman, satirical novel, roman fleuve, et cetera, et cetera, all bound up in the unlikely guise of epic science-fiction page-turner.

The novel was not only the presenter of the new, secular, rationalistic, private world of the middle class.

Lewis was spending his mornings, with the help of two secretaries, on the galleys of that long novel, making considerable revisions, and the combination of hard work and hard frivolity exhausted him once more, so that he was compelled to spend three days in the Harbor Sanatorium in the last week of January.

Krim was able to get an advance for a novel, and time and opportunity to write at Yaddo, but it was no good.

He was thinking his way into a new novel, a big one, one that people had been waiting for.

His lordship was concerned in the management of Drury Lane but, if there were no opportunities there, would he read and criticize her novel??

Postmaster General J. Edward Day, who must deal with matters of postal censorship, is himself author of a novel, Bartholf Street, albeit one he was obliged to publish at his own expense.

A year ago it was bruited that the primary character in Erich Maria Remarque's new novel was based on the Marquis Alfonso De Portago, the Spanish nobleman who died driving in the Mille Miglia automobile race of 1957.

Mr. Remarque's conception of this novel was sound and perhaps even noble.

the book was a fine historical novel about Edward 3,, and I did a week of research to get the details just right: the fifteenth-century armor, furnishings, clothes.

As a first step, Algerian literature was marked by works whose main concern was the assertion of the Algerian national entity, there is the publication of novels as the Algerian trilogy of Mohammed Dib, or even Nedjma of Kateb Yacine novel which is often regarded as a monumental and major work.

Significantly, Huxley also worked for a time in the 1920s at the technologically advanced Brunner and Mond chemical plant in Billingham, Teesside, and the most recent introduction to his famous science fiction novel Brave New World ( 1932 ) states that this experience of " an ordered universe in a world of planless incoherence " was one source for the novel.

According to Burgess, the novel was a jeu d ' esprit written in just three weeks.

In 1950 it was combined with " War of Nerves " ( 1950 ), " Discord in Scarlet " ( 1939 ) and " M33 in Andromeda " ( 1943 ) to form the novel The Voyage of the Space Beagle ( 1950 ).

He wrote a mainstream novel that was set in Communist China, The Violent Man ( 1962 ); he said that to research this book he had read 100 books about China.

According to a research report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Oran was decimated by the plague in 1556 and 1678, but outbreaks after European colonization, in 1921 ( 185 cases ), 1931 ( 76 cases ), and 1944 ( 95 cases ), were very far from the scale of the epidemic described in the novel.

The scenes at the end of the novel, when Oran's gates are reopened, recall the jubilant scenes in Paris when the city was liberated in 1944.

Her first appearance in a full-length novel was in The Murder at the Vicarage in 1930.

The novel was not published until shortly after Christie's death in 1976, some thirty-six years after it was originally written.

This first film was based on the 1957 novel 4: 50 from Paddington ( U. S. title, What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw!