Jean-Louis Curtis

Jean-Louis Curtis (22 May 1917 – 11 November 1995),pseudonym of Albert Laffitte, was a French novelist best known for his second novel The Forests of the Night (French: Les Forêts de la nuit), which won France's highest literary award the Prix Goncourt in 1947. He is the author of over 30 novels.

Curtis was born in Orthez, Pyrénées-Atlantiques. He was one of the founders of the literary monthly La Table Ronde in 1948. He was elected to the Académie française in 1986.

Martin Seymour-Smith said of Curtis in the early 1980s:

The author Michel Houellebecq made a homage to him in a long passage in La carte et le territoire (prix Goncourt 2010).

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