Alain Robbe-Grillet

Alain Robbe-Grillet was a French writer and filmmaker, best known as one of the leading figures of the Nouveau Roman, or 'new novel', of the 1960s, alongside Nathalie Sarraute, Michel Butor and Claude Simon. His novels include In the Labyrinth, Jealousy and The Voyeur. He was elected to the Académie française in 2004 and died in 2008.