Nathalie Sarraute

A French author of Russian descent, whose maiden name was Natalia (Natacha) Tcherniak. She was born in Ivanovo, Russia, in 1900 and passed away in Paris in 1999. In the mid-1950s, she was one of the most significant representatives of the "nouveau roman" ("new novel"), alongside Alain Robbe-Grillet, Claude Simon, Marguerite Duras, and Michel Butor—though she proved to be a more "challenging" and less commercial writer than they were. In 1956, she published an essay that would become the manifesto of the new movement, titled "L'Ere du soupçon" ("The Age of Suspicion").