Representative French-language novelists such as Proust, Gide, Colette, Celine, Bernanos, Sartre, Sarraute, Simon, Le Clezio, Labou Tansi, Djebar, Chamoiseau, Echenoz etc., and esthetic movements which influenced fiction-writing such as Existentialism, Negritude, le Nouveau Roman, Creolite etc.