Julien Serge Doubrovsky (22 May 1928, Paris – 23 March 2017, Boulogne-Billancourt) was a French writer and 1989 Prix Médicis winner for Le Livre brisé.
He is also a critical theorist, and coined the term "autofiction" in the drafts for his novel Fils (1977).
[3] His family was Jewish; in 1943, in the midst of World War II, they fled Le Vésinet and hid with a cousin.
[3] Doubrovsky graduated from the École normale supérieure, and he earned the agrégation in English in 1949.
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