Published "Eden, Eden, Eden" in 1971. The book was banned from being
publicised or sold to under-18s, until 1981. A petition of
international support was signed (notably by Pier Paolo Pasolini,
Jean-Paul Sartre, Pierre Boulez, Joseph Beuys, Pierre Dac, Jean Genet,
Joseph Kessel, Maurice Blanchot, Max Ernst, Italo Calvino, Jacques
Monod, Simone de Beauvoir, and Nathalie Sarraute). François Mitterrand,
and Georges Pompidou, tried to get the ban lifted but it remained.
Claude Simon (who won the Nobel Prize in 1985) resigned from the jury
of the Prix Médicis after the prize wasn't awarded to "Eden, Eden,
Eden".