André Stil (1 April 1921 – 3 September 2004) was a French novelist, short story writer, occasional poet, and political activist.

Born in Hergnies, Nord, a small town in the coal-mining region of northern France, Stil was educated at the University of Lille, earning a degree in philosophy.

He won the Grand Prix du Roman Populaire, was awarded the Legion d'Honneur, and in 1977 was elected one of the ten members of the Academie Goncourt.

[2] His first novel, The Word `Coalminer', Comrade (1949) launched his enduring themes of working class life and militant communist politics.

This tells the story of the resistance of dock workers to the arrival of an American arms ship and contains detailed accounts of domestic working-class life.