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Paris : Top 10 Foreign Writers who Lived in Paris

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1. Ernest Hemingway

The US author (1899–1961) wrote A Moveable Feast as an affectionate portrait of his time in Paris from 1921–1926.
2. F Scott Fitzgerald

Like Hemingway, US writer Fitzgerald (1896–1940) lived in Montparnasse and frequented the bar La Coupole.
3. George Orwell

The English novelist (1903–50) tells of his shocking experiences living in poverty in Down and Out in Paris and London (1933).
4. Samuel Beckett

Born in Ireland in 1906, the playwright lived in Paris from 1928 until his death in 1989.
5. Anaïs Nin

US novelist Nin (1903–77) met her lover, fellow American Henry Miller, in Paris. Her Diaries tell of her time here.
6. Albert Camus

Algerian born Camus (1913–60) moved to Paris in 1935 and lived here until his death.
7. Henry Miller

Miller (1891–1980) showed the seedier side of Paris in his novel Tropic of Cancer (1934).
8. Diana Mitford

Controversial fascist sympathiser and authoress, Mitford (1910-2003) spent her dotage in Paris.
9. Edmund White

Prolific novelist White (b.1940) is the author of The Flaneur , a Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris .
10. Milan Kundera

Czech born Kundera (b.1929) moved to Paris in 1978 where he wrote The Unbearable Lightness of Being .