Question: Were Julia Alvarez and Raymond Queneau novelists?
Related documents: [0]  [DOC] Raymond Queneau (] ; 21 February 1903 – 25 October 1976) was a French novelist, poet, critic, editor and co-founder and president of Oulipo ("Ouvroir de littérature potentielle"), notable for his wit and cynical humour. [END] 
[1]  [DOC] Julia Alvarez (born March 27, 1950) is a Dominican-American poet, novelist, and essayist. She rose to prominence with the novels "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" (1991), "In the Time of the Butterflies" (1994), and "Yo!" (1997). Her publications as a poet include "Homecoming" (1984) and "The Woman I Kept to Myself" (2004), and as an essayist the autobiographical compilation "Something to Declare" (1998). Many literary critics regard her to be one of the most significant Latina writers and she has achieved critical and commercial success on an international scale. [END] 
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