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Émile Zola
French novelist, journalist, playwright, and poet (1840–1902)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 2 April 1840, 1840
- Died
- 29 September 1902, 1902
- Place of birth
- Paris, rue Saint-Joseph
- Place of death
- 9th arrondissement of Paris
- Sex or gender
- male
- Family name
- Zola
- Father
- Francesco Zola
- Mother
- Émilie Aubert
- Spouse
- Alexandrine Meley, Jeanne Rozerot
- Movement
- naturalism, freethought
- Field of work
- literature, novel, theatre, short story
- Occupation
- political reporter, art critic, novelist, essayist, playwright, short story writer, literary critic, theatre critic, journalist, writer, poet, photographer
- Position held
- president of the Société des gens de lettres, president of the Société des gens de lettres
- Citizenship
- France
- Native language
- French
- Religion
- atheism
- birth name
- Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola
- cause of death
- carbon monoxide poisoning
- described by source
- Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978), The New Student's Reference Work, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, BEIC Digital Library, Library of the World's Best Literature, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Albert Edelfelt's letters, Otto's encyclopedia, New International Encyclopedia
- different from
- Elémire Zolla
- end of work period
- 1902
- has works in the collection
- Art Institute of Chicago, Victoria and Albert Museum, Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes
- influenced by
- Honoré de Balzac
- IPA transcription
- e.mil e.dwaʁ zɔ.la
- languages spoken, written or signed
- French
- manner of death
- accidental death
- name in native language
- Émile Zola
- nickname
- Le Maître de Médan
- nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prize in Literature
- notable work
- Les Rougon-Macquart, Thérèse Raquin, J’accuse…!, Nana, La Terre
- participant in
- Congress of Aix-en-Provence
- place of burial
- Panthéon, Montmartre Cemetery
- significant event
- Dreyfus affair
- significant person
- Paul Cézanne, Octave Mirbeau
- start of work period
- 1865
- topic's main category
- Category:Émile Zola
- unmarried partner
- Jeanne Rozerot
- writing language
- French
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