France – daily existence and social customs
The literature from the twentieth century was notable because of its openness to nonnative authors: the Irish author Samuel Beckett, for example, the Czech expatriate Milan Kundera, the Russian emigrant Andreï Makine, and Chinese exile Gao Xingjian have created major works in French. Georges Simenon and Marguerite Yourcenar, both born in Belgium in 1903, were …