John-Antoine Nau

John-Antoine Nau (1860–1918), real name Eugène Léon Édouard Torquet, was a French poet and writer born in San Francisco to French émigré parents, holding American citizenship but spending most of his life in France after returning at age six. He is most famous for his debut novel Enemy Force (Force ennemie, 1903), a darkly humorous science fiction satire that won the inaugural Prix Goncourt award, considered a forgotten masterpiece despite its initial commercial failure. A peripatetic bohemian, he self-published poetry and novels while wandering Europe and the Caribbean, leaving many works unpublished at his death.