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Jonathan Littell

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1967, New York City, United States

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United States, France and Spain

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Jonathan Littell is an American-French writer, son of the novelist Robert Littell, best known for The Kindly Ones (Les Bienveillantes), which won France's Prix Goncourt. Of Jewish background, he writes in French, and his fiction confronts the history and moral weight of the Holocaust.

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