Frankenstein, Guillermo del Toro's take on Mary Shelley's classic, arrives on Netflix this fall and we've got the first ...

“Frankenstein” continues Netflix’s partnership with del Toro, including the Oscar winner for Best Animated Feature Film, “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio,” the anthology series “Guillermo del Toro’s ...

Two Victor Hugo Trails have been launched in Guernsey to celebrate the island's literary and historical heritage. The two trails allow people to learn more about him and his exile in Guernsey ...

Guangzhou, capital city of south China's Guangdong Province, began a series of memorial events on Saturday marking the 200th anniversary of the birth of the great French writer, Victor Hugo.

Victor Hugo was "the French equivalent of Shakespeare and Dickens", said Jonathan Jones in The Guardian. We've all absorbed the myths he created – "Les Misérables", "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame ...

Victor Hugo, better known as the French writer behind the Hunchback of Notre-Dame and Les Misérables, also spend some time with pen in hand. Until the 29th of June, his lesser-known collections of ...

French writer Victor Hugo is famous for penning The Hunchback of Notre-Dame and Les Miserables, but less known is his work as an illustrator — now the subject of a new exhibition in London.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In September 1843, Victor Hugo was on a sunlit walk while travelling with his mistress in the Pyrenees.

It would look at home among Surrealist paintings, but this 1850 drawing (below) pre-dates the movement by more than half a century and wasn’t even made by a professional artist: instead, it is the ...

“Astonishing Things” was Vincent Van Gogh’s observation about Victor Hugo’s work; we don’t know whether he was talking about his prose, poetry or art - probably the prose. But it’s not ...

Foraging for the future: If much of his imagery feels rooted in the early 19th century Romantic era in which Victor Hugo grew up, the treatment often looks forward to late 19th century symbolism ...