Louis Ferdinand Auguste Destouches (27 May 1894 – 1 July 1961),
better known by the pen name Louis-Ferdinand Céline ) was a French novelist, polemicist, and physician
His first novel Journey to the End of the Night (1932) won the Prix Renaudot but divided critics due to the author's pessimistic depiction of the human condition and his writing style based on working class speech.
