Question: Who was a French writer, Maurice Blanchot or Jaroslav Seifert?
Context: The Prix Sainte-Beuve, established in 1946, is a French literary prize awarded each year to a writer in the categories "novels" (or "poetry") and "essays" (or "critics"); it is named after the writer Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve.  The founding jury included Raymond Aron, Maurice Blanchot, , Maurice Nadeau, Jean Paulhan and Raymond Queneau. Charlotte Mandell (born 1968) is an American literary translator.  She has translated many works of poetry, fiction and philosophy from French to English, including work by Honoré de Balzac, Gustave Flaubert, Jules Verne, Guy de Maupassant, Marcel Proust, Maurice Blanchot, Antoine de Baecque, Abdelwahab Meddeb, Bernard-Henri Lévy, Jean-Luc Nancy Matias Énard and Jonathan Littell. Stanislav Kostka Neumann (June 5, 1875, in Prague – June 28, 1947, in Prague) was Czech writer, poet and journalist.  He has undergone many stages of creative: symbolist ("I Am an Apostle of the New Life"), anarchist ("A Dream About a Crowd of Desperate People, and Other Verses"), landscape lyric ("The Book of Forests, Hills, and Waters"), civilist ("New Songs"), communist ("Red Songs") and others.  He was one of the founders of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.  He was a mentor of Jaroslav Seifert (Seifert was dedicated this his first book). Jaroslav Seifert (] ; 23 September 1901 – 10 January 1986) was a Nobel Prize–winning Czechoslovak writer, poet and journalist. Maurice Blanchot (] ; 22 September 1907 – 20 February 2003) was a French writer, philosopher, and literary theorist.  His work had a strong influence on post-structuralist philosophers such as Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Derrida. Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse (15 March 1830 – 2 April 1914) was a distinguished German writer and translator.  A member of two important literary societies, the "Tunnel über der Spree" in Berlin and "Die Krokodile" in Munich, he wrote novels, poetry, 177 short stories, and about sixty dramas.  The sum of Heyse's many and varied productions made him a dominant figure among German men of letters.  He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1910 "as a tribute to the consummate artistry, permeated with idealism, which he has demonstrated during his long productive career as a lyric poet, dramatist, novelist and writer of world-renowned short stories."  Wirsen, one of the Nobel judges, said that "Germany has not had a greater literary genius since Goethe."  Heyse is the fifth oldest laureate in literature, after Doris Lessing, Theodor Mommsen, Alice Munro and Jaroslav Seifert. The Jaroslav Seifert Prize is a prestigious Czech literary prize.  It was originally awarded to authors in exile during the Soviet era. A limit-experience (French: "expérience limite" ) is a type of action or experience which approaches the edge of living in terms of its intensity and its seeming impossibility.  This approach has led to the seeking of limit experiences as a sort of dark mysticism.  A limit experience breaks the subject from itself.  The idea is associated with writers Georges Bataille, Maurice Blanchot, and Michel Foucault. Leslie Hill is professor of French at the University of Warwick.  He has written several influential books on French writers and philosophers including Samuel Beckett, Marguerite Duras, Maurice Blanchot, Georges Bataille, Pierre Klossowski and Jacques Derrida.  Hill was elected to a fellowship of the British Academy in 2003. Ludvík Kundera (22 March 1920 – 17 August 2010) was a Czech writer, translator, poet, playwright, editor and literary historian.  He was a notable exponent of the Czech avant-garde literature and a prolific translator of German authors.  In 2007, he received the Medal of Merit for service to the Republic.  In 2009, he was awarded the "Jaroslav Seifert Award", presented by the Charter 77 Foundation.  Kundera was a cousin of Czech-French writer Milan Kundera and nephew of the pianist and musicologist also named Ludvík Kundera.
Answer: Maurice Blanchot