Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly (2 November 1808 – 23 April 1889) was a French novelist and short story writer.
 He specialised in mystery tales that explored hidden motivation and hinted at evil without being explicitly concerned with anything supernatural.
 He had a decisive influence on writers such as Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Henry James and Marcel Proust.
The Marcel Proust Prize is a former literary award of France.
 Created by the municipal council of Cabourg, in Normandy, in 1972, it was awarded until 1994; the recipient was a work which evoked that of Marcel Proust.
 Writers were awarded 5,000 francs for their work.
Adrien Achille Proust (18 March 1834, Illiers – 26 November 1903, Paris) was a French epidemiologist and hygienist.
 He was the father of novelist Marcel Proust.
Anne F. Garréta (born 1962) is a French novelist and a member of the experimental literary group Oulipo.
 A graduate of France’s prestigious École normale supérieure and lecturer at the University of Rennes II since 1995, Anne F. Garréta was co-opted into the Oulipo in April 2000.
 She also teaches at Duke University as a Research Professor of Literature and Romance Studies.
 Her first novel, "Sphinx" (Grasset, 1986), hailed by critics, tells a love story between two people without giving any indication of grammatical gender for the narrator or the narrator’s love interest, A***.
 Her second novel, "Ciels liquides" (Grasset, 1990), tells the fate of a character losing the use of language.
 "In La Décomposition" (Grasset, 1999), a serial killer methodically murders characters from Marcel Proust’s "In Search of Lost Time".
 She met Oulipian Jacques Roubaud in Vienna in 1993, and was invited to present her work at an Oulipo seminar in March 1994, and again in May 2000, which led to her joining the Oulipo.
 She won the Prix Médicis in 2002 for her novel "Pas un jour".
 awarded each year to an author whose “fame does not yet match their talent” (she is the second Oulipian to win the award—Georges Perec won in 1978).
Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust ( ; ] ; 10 July 1871 – 18 November 1922), known as Marcel Proust, was a French novelist, critic, and essayist best known for his monumental novel "À la recherche du temps perdu" ("In Search of Lost Time"; earlier rendered as "Remembrance of Things Past"), published in seven parts between 1913 and 1927.
 He is considered by critics and writers to be one of the most influential authors of the 20th century.
Lucette Finas (born July 13, 1921) is a French author and essayist, part of the structuralist movement.
 She has published several articles relating interviews with French scholars and philosophers in the 1970s, like writers Nathalie Sarraute, philosopher and historian Michel Foucault or philosopher Jacques Derrida.
Jean-Yves Tadié (born 1936) is a French writer, specializing in Marcel Proust.
 His 800-page biography of Proust was well-received, asserted by Edmund White in his own book on Proust to be the best work of its kind.
 Briefly a professor in the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford, Tadié was then, until his retirement, a professor at the Paris-Sorbonne University (Paris IV) and director of the collections "Classical Folio" and "Theatre Folio".
Nathalie Sarraute (] ; July 18, 1900 – October 19, 1999) was a French lawyer and writer.
Proust and Signs (French: "Marcel Proust et les signes" ) is a 1964 book by Gilles Deleuze, in which the author explores the system of signs within the work of the celebrated French novelist Marcel Proust.
 It was translated into English by Richard Howard.
Alain Robbe-Grillet (] ; 18 August 1922 – 18 February 2008) was a French writer and filmmaker.
 He was one of the figures most associated with the "Nouveau Roman" (new novel) trend of the 1960s, along with Nathalie Sarraute, Michel Butor and Claude Simon.
 Alain Robbe-Grillet was elected a member of the Académie française on 25 March 2004, succeeding Maurice Rheims at seat No. 32.
 He was married to Catherine Robbe-Grillet (née Rstakian).

Question: Which person was a french novelist and crtic, Nathalie Sarraute or Marcel Proust?
Answer: Marcel Proust