What is Émile Zola?
{{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] --> | birth_name = Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola | image = Emile Zola 1902.jpg | pseudonym = | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1840|4|2}} | birth_place = Paris, France | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1902|9|29|1840|4|2}} | death_place = Paris, France | occupation = Novelist, playwright, journalist | nationality = [[France|French]] | genre = [[Naturalism (literature)|Naturalism]] | notableworks = ''[[Les Rougon-Macquart]]'', ''[[Thérèse Raquin]]'', ''[[Germinal (novel)|Germinal]]'' |signature = Zola signature.svg }} [[File:Manet, Edouard - Portrait of Emile Zola.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Émile Zola, portrait by [[Edouard Manet]].]] '''Émile Zola''' ({{IPA2|emil zɔˈla}}) (2 April 1840 – 29 September 1902) was a major [[France|French]] [[writer]] and the most important [[Naturalism (literature)|naturalist]] writer. He worked toward political [[liberal]]ization of France. Zola was nominated for the first and second [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] in 1901 and 1902.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/literature/nomination.php?string=1901&action=simplesearch&submit.x=20&submit.y=8&submit=submit |title=Nomination Database - Literature - 1901 |publisher=Nobelprize.org |accessdate=2014-02-07}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/literature/nomination.php?string=1902&action=simplesearch&submit.x=11&submit.y=4&submit=submit |title=Nomination Database - Literature - 1902 |publisher=Nobelprize.org |accessdate=2014-02-07}}</ref> His death from [[carbon monoxide]] poisoning is suspected to have been suicide. == Works by Emile Zola == * ''Contes á Ninon'', (1864) * ''La Confession de Claude'' (1865) * ''Thérèse Raquin'' (1867) * ''Madeleine Férat'' (1868) * ''Le Roman Experimental'' (1880) * ''Les Rougon-Macquart'' ** ''La Fortune des Rougon'' (1871) ** ''La Curée'' (1871–72) ** ''Le Ventre de Paris'' (1873) ** ''La Conquête