French novelist who led the Naturalist school with his 20-novel Rougon-Macquart cycle. His 1898 open letter 我控诉 (J'accuse) defended Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish army officer wrongly convicted of spying.
Mainland and Taiwan books alike usually write 左拉; 佐拉 is a rarer variant with the same sound. His novel Germinal, about a coal miners' strike, is 《萌芽》 'Sprouting' in Chinese, and Nana is 《娜娜》.
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佐拉 also renders the name Zora, as in the American writer Zora Neale Hurston, 佐拉·尼尔·赫斯顿, author of Their Eyes Were Watching God.
