Caryl Férey
Caryl Férey’s novel Utu won the Sang d’Encre, Michael Lebrun, and SNCF Crime Fiction Prizes. Zulu, his first novel to be published in English, was the winner of the Nouvel Obs Crime Fiction and Quais du Polar Readers Prizes. In 2008, it was awarded the French Grand Prix for Best Crime Novel. He lives in France.
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Après des études littéraires Lilia Hassaine participe, en 2012, au programme Monde Académie du Monde puis intègre, en 2013, l'Institut français de presse dont elle sort diplômée en 2015. Elle travaille pour Arte, Le Parisien et Le Monde, puis, en 2014, remporte le 5e prix Santé et Citoyenneté du meilleur web-documentaire avec De mèche contre le cancer. En janvier 2018, Lilia Hassaine rejoint Bangumi, la société de production créée par Yann Barthès. Travaillant dans un premier temps en coulisses, elle participe en plateau à l'émission Trump, Saison 1 présentée par Martin Weill le -
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Jean-Baptiste Andrea
Jean-Baptiste Andrea, né le 4 avril 1971 à Saint-Germain-en-Laye, est un écrivain, scénariste et réalisateur français. Il reçoit le prix Femina des lycéens et le prix du premier roman pour son premier livre, Ma reine, sorti en 2017, le Grand Prix RTL-Lire en 2021, ainsi que le prix Goncourt 2023 et le Grand prix des lectrices de Elle pour son quatrième roman, Veiller sur elle.
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His debut Snowblind, first in the Dark Iceland series, went to number one in the Amazon Kindle charts shortly after publication. The book was also a no. 1 Amazon Kindle bestseller in Australia. Snowblind has been a paperback bestseller in France.
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Szpilman is widely known as the protagonist of the Roman Polański film The Pianist , which is based on his autobiographical book recounting how he survived the Holocaust. In November 1998 Władysław Szpilman was honoured by the president of Poland with a Kommandor Order with a Star of Polonia Restituta. -
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Derek Raymond
Aka Robin Cook.
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Alex Christofi
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Aura Xilonen
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Psychanalyste, psychiatre, scénariste et cinéaste, Maurice Attia est l’auteur de plusieurs romans noirs. Il a reçu le prix du Festival du polar méditerranéen de Villeneuve-Lès-Avignon, le prix Michel Lebrun du roman policier et le prix Jean-Amila Meckert pour Alger la Noire (2006), traduit dans plusieurs langues.
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Thomas Day
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Née à Paris en 1942, et j'y suis restée pendant tout ce temps.
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"The friends are the only things I've brought with me through the years that really matter," she says. "I could probably live without one more chintz teacup, another tin-litho sandpail or another snowglobe, but I need those friends."
The theme of enduring friendships and families is always central to Sherryl's books, including her latest Chesapeake Shores series — THE INN AT EAGLE POINT, FLOWERS ON MAIN and HARBOR LIGHTS.
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Thierry Smolderen
Thierry Smolderen (born 25 November 1954) is an essay writer, as well as a script writer of Belgian comic strips.
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Smolderen is a teacher at École des Beaux-Arts of Angoulême, France. As a comic books historian, he wrote Naissances de la bande dessinée (2009), about the "platinum age" of comics. This book has been published in English by the University Press of Mississippi in 2014, under the title The Origins of Comics: From William Hogarth to Winsor McCay (Eisner Award nominee of 2015 in the Best Scholarly/Academic Work category). -
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