Serge Doubrovsky

Julien Serge Doubrovsky (22 May 1928 to 23 March 2017) was a French writer and critical theorist. He won the 1989 Prix Médicis for Le Livre brisé. He is credited with coining the term autofiction, which he used in the drafts of his novel Fils, published in 1977, for writing that blends autobiography with invented material. Open Library counts twenty-eight works under his main record, led by the critical study Pourquoi la nouvelle critique, and lists other critical books under his name, including Corneille et la dialectique du héros. His career therefore ran in two directions, as a literary scholar and as a novelist whose own life became his subject.