The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word FLAUBERT
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More clues leading to the result FLAUBERT
- Writer's problem with tyre: taxi firm called in
- French writer’s cab getting puncture outside
- Possibly be artful as a novelist
- French writer depressed about taxi firm
- French writer of fine novel La Brute
- Queen consort, during Belfast tour, reread novel
- Novel — book in four parts
- French writer gets to live in old city in apartment
- Heard current minimalist French author
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