This is what comes to mind, but it doesn't really trip off the tongue... Unless we don't include the word "author"... Can we have a sentence pls?

I think this expression is in reasonably widespread use.

An example:

"He is one of the rare directors capable of recounting murder and acts of torture in a tranquil tone – watch “Ten Monologues from the Lives of Serial Killers” if you need convincing. He is a modern day “Accursed Author” in the style of Baudelaire or Georges Bataille."

http://kaganof.com/kagablog/category/ian-kerkhof/page/11/?sh...

Just one of many possibilities. Examples: t can't be, according to renegade thinkers Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jethå. ... Frans de Waal, author of The Age of Empathy. “A wonderfully provocative ...
www.harpercollins.com/books/Sex-Dawn/?isbn... - En caché; Generous excerpts from Steward's journals and unpublished memoirs ... —Terry Teachout, author of Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong ... A classically educated and highly talented renegade intellectual, ...
www.secrethistorian.com/pressreviews.html - En caché; Renegade documentary filmmaker Ramin Farahani, whose latest film is banned in his home country of Iran, sat down with students at Oxford ...
www.chabad.org/.../Renegade-Filmmaker-Discusses-Jewish-Docu... - ; In 1988, renegade filmmaker Robert Altman and Pulitzer Prize–winning Doonesbury .... ...al fin, el mar [Finally the Sea] (2005) Jorge D.. .... (2004) - Christian Molina · Perinbaba (The Feather Fairy) (1985) - Juraj Jaku. ...
www.foriegnmoviesddl.com/.../tanner-88-1988-robert-altman.h... - En caché

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If it is used directly to describe a filmmaker, I would substitute "filmmaker" for "author".

'Bête noire ' is the French expression used in English to signal something or someone hated or detested, like a permanent thorn in the side of someone or something .

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Peter Bogdanovich - Biography ... murder of director Thomas H. Ince by Welles' bete noir William Randolph Hearst, .... "World Film Directors, Volume Two, 1945- 1985". Pages 133-138. ...
www.imdb.com/name/nm0000953/bio - Cached - Similarscreenonline: Anderson, Lindsay (1923-1994) Biography ... the debilitating class system which was Anderson 's recurring bête noire, and, ... Brian McFarlane, Reference Guide to British and Irish Film Directors ...
www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/446941/ - Cached

...La idea de poeta maldito, fue tomado en parte del poema Bendición incluído en el libro Las flores del mal del poeta Charles Baudelaire. El uso de esta expresión y del término malditismo se generalizó luego para referirse a cualquier poeta (o a un escritor de otros géneros o incluso a un artista plástico) que, independientemente de su talento, es incomprendido por sus contemporáneos y no obtiene el éxito en vida; especialmente para los que llevan una vida bohemia, rechazan las normas establecidas (tanto las reglas del arte como los convencionalismos sociales) y desarrollan un arte libre o provocativo...

Since my particular point of view after review and enjoy Molina´s work "maldito" will not be a proper adjective, but subversive (seditious)...

Take a look on Polonsky work and biography...