French writers include Voltaire, a philosopher and author of the Enlightenment period; Camus, a Nobel Prize-winning novelist and philosopher; Gide, a symbolist writer; Loti, a novelist and travel writer; Dumas, a playwright and novelist; Sagan, a novelist and playwright; Verne, a science fiction writer; Daudet, a novelist and playwright; Proust, a novelist and essayist; Racine, a playwright; Sartre, a philosopher and novelist; and COLETTE, a novelist and essayist.