Are Claude Simon and John Braine both novelists? 
yes
John Braine
John Gerard Braine (13 April 1922 – 28 October 1986) was an English novelist.
 Braine is usually listed among the Angry Young Men, a loosely defined group of English writers who emerged on the literary scene in the 1950s.
Claude Simon
Claude Simon (] ; 10 October 1913 – 6 July 2005) was a French novelist and critic, and the 1985 Nobel Laureate in Literature.
Room at the Top (2012 film)
Room at the Top is a 2012 BBC television adaptation by Amanda Coe of John Braine's novel of the same name, with a cast led by Matthew McNulty, Maxine Peake and Jenna Coleman, and directed by Aisling Walsh. Life at the Top
Life At The Top is the third novel by the English author John Braine, first published in the UK by Eyre & Spottiswoode and in the US by Houghton Mifflin & Co. in 1962.
 It continues the story of the life and difficulties of Joe Lampton, an ambitious young man of humble origins.
 A 1965 film adaptation of the novel was made starring Laurence Harvey.
 In September 2012, BBC television finally broadcast a two-part television adaptation of "Room at the Top" that had been delayed because of copyright difficulties.
 Matthew McNulty was in the lead role. Room at the Top (novel)
Room at the Top is a novel by John Braine, first published in the United Kingdom by Eyre & Spottiswoode in 1957, about the rise of an ambitious young man of humble origin, and the socio-economic struggles undergone in realising his social ambitions in post-war Britain.
 A film adaptation was made in 1959, followed in 2012 by a TV film.
 John Minton's cover art from the first edition was restored and used on the new edition by Valancourt Books in 2013. The Crying Game (novel)
The Crying Game is a 1968 novel by British novelist John Braine.
 It is a satirical story about a conservative journalist whose life changes after he learns of a political scandal. Room at the Top (1959 film)
Room at the Top is a 1959 British film based on the novel of the same name by John Braine.
 The novel was adapted by Neil Paterson with uncredited work by Mordecai Richler.
 It was directed by Jack Clayton and produced by John and James Woolf.
 The film stars Laurence Harvey, Simone Signoret, Heather Sears, Donald Wolfit, Donald Houston and Hermione Baddeley. The Jealous God
The Jealous God is a novel by John Braine which was first published in 1964.
 Set in the early 1960s among the Irish Catholic community in a small Yorkshire town, the book is about a 30-year-old mummy's boy and his attempts at liberating himself from his domineering mother.
 The title refers to the latter's wish that her "favourite" son, although already rather old for following his alleged vocation, become a clergyman.
 It was said that it was John Braine's personal favourite novel of all those that he wrote and was finally filmed in 2005. The Jealous God (film)
The Jealous God (2005) is a 1960s set feature film by British writer-director Steven Woodcock.
 It is based on the novel by John Braine.
 The opening scenes were filmed in the grammar school in Bradford where Braine was once a pupil.
 Braine became famous in 1957 for his classic "Room at the Top", a book that shocked when first published because of how it exploded British class and sexual mores of the time.
 There’s a clip from the Oscar-winning 1958 film version of "Room at the Top" in "The Jealous God", when Vincent and Laura are seen sitting in a cinema.
 Allan Gill in his extraordinary movie debut, dazzles as inquisitive schoolboy #4. Man at the Top (TV series)
Man at the Top was a British television series originally aired on ITV lasting for 23 episodes between 1970 and 1972.
 The series depicted the character of Joe Lampton, the protagonist of John Braine's novel "Room at the Top" and of two subsequent films, "Room at the Top" and "Life at the Top".
 In 1973 a spin-off film from the series, "Man at the Top", was released.