Gaston Chérau (6 November 1872 – 20 April 1937) was a French man of letters and journalist.

A fertile novelist of the province, his pen is very influenced by the Berry where he had family roots, stayed a part of his childhood, and where he returned assiduously on vacation in a second home until the end of his life.

He was also interested in cinema and wrote the dialogues of the film Les Deux mondes (1930) directed by Ewald Andreas Dupont.

[1] Georges Bernanos described him as a "Maupassant of sub-prefecture", because he had not voted for the Voyage au bout de la nuit by Louis-Ferdinand Céline at the 1932 edition of the prix Goncourt (Le Figaro, 13 December 1932).

We, the "Goncourt", will often think of him, his joyful entrance, his clairvoyant and sensitive eyes(Léon Daudet, L’Action française, 22 April 1937).