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| 1942 |
| | | French author Marguerite Duras makes her name with her partly autobiographical novel The Sea Wall | |
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| 1943 |
| | | French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre expounds his theory of existentialism in Being and Nothingness ('L'Être et le néant') | |
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| 1943 |
| | | Jean-Paul Sartre begins a new career as a dramatist with his first play, The Flies ('Les Mouches') | |
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| 1950 |
| | | French dramatist Eugène Ionesco's play The Bald Prima Donna launches the Theatre of the Absurd | |
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| 1953 |
| | | Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot ('En attendant Godot') is first performed in French in Paris | |
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| 1954 |
| | | 19-year-old Françoise Sagan has a major international success with her first novel, Bonjour Tristesse | |
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| 1958 |
| | | Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita is published in Paris | |
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| 1969 |
| | | English novelist John Fowles publishes The French Lieutenant's Woman, set in Lyme Regis in the 1860s | |
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| 1994 |
| | | Art, a play by French-born Iranian playwright Yasmina Reza, has its premiere in Berlin | |
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