Guy Mazeline (12 April 1900 Le Havre – 25 May 1996 Boulogne-Billancourt) was a French writer, winner of the prix Goncourt in 1932 for his novel Les Loups, surprisingly winning against Voyage au bout de la nuit by Louis-Ferdinand Céline.

Due to inheriting his father's business, initially he lives comfortably with his wife Marie-Jeanne and his children Didier (who aspires to be a sailor), Vincent (who is disabled after a childhood accident affected one of his legs), Benoît (who is impulsive, violent and hires prostitutes regularly), Geneviève (who's the fiancee of the wealthy Gilbert), and Blanche (who's married to her banker husband Georges, whom Vincent and Benoit privately refer to as the 'Hypocrite', due to his ambition and duplicity.

Valérie, however , is Maximilien's illegitimate daughter, the child his lover Pauline bore after she left Le Havre for Martinique twenty years before, when she married Labrête.

[2] According to one reviewer, Tony Shaw, Les Loups was condemned as overly lengthy, 'unreadable' and dull in Figaro and Le Parisien even in 1999, which indicates that there is still critical opinion that Journey to the End of Night should have won the prix Goncourt in 1932 instead.

French critic Eugene Saccomano novelised the consequent debate over the relative merits of The Wolves and Journey to the End of Night, in a book entitled Goncourt '32.