About the Author

Nathalie Sarraute (1900-1999) was the author of eleven novels, three works of criticism, a collection of plays, and an autobiography. She is most well known as one of the prime proponents, along with Alain Robbe-Grillet, Robert Pinget, and Claude Simon, of the Nouveau Roman. She won the International Prize for Literature in 1964 for her novel The Golden Fruits.