Does the author of Les Misérables need to be introduced? In the end, maybe yes. What do we know about Victor Hugo. Author of novels, poems, plays, drawings, Victor Hugo is a committed and passionate man. Inhabited by an overflowing imagination in the service of an unequalled literary talent, he produced writings throughout his life that would lead him to exile, even though he had been praised a few years earlier for his works. Proud of a pen that he knew to be acerbic, Victor Hugo was a man of integrity. Elegant and refined, romantic and poetic, Parisian and obstinate.