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  Georgi Vladimov

  Georgi Vladimov, who has died aged 72, was one of the promising young writers seen as representing new hope for Russian literature in the de-Stalinisation thaw of the 1950s and early 1960s. By the end of the 1970s, however, they had become disillusioned, and many, including Vladimov, had emigrated from the Soviet Union.
  
  Vladimov's particular distinction was as a dissident of immense moral courage, and as the author of Faithful Ruslan, one of the defining literary texts of the post-Stalin period. His life was one of constant vicissitudes, but his authority and fortitude remained firm to the end.
  
  Born Georgi Volosevich in Kharkov, Ukraine, of a Jewish mother and a father of mixed Polish and Belarusian origin, Vladimov studied at the Suvorov Mil

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  Tanguy Viel

  Tanguy Viel, né le 27 décembre 1973 à Brest, est un écrivain français.
  Tanguy Viel est réputé pour une mise en place d’intrigues complexes, une réflexion sur quelques thèmes récurrents (les liens familiaux, les duperies, les inégalités de classes et les difficultés à prendre l’ascenseur social), et un travail formel. Il s’inscrit dans la tradition des éditions de Minuit3, c’est-à-dire selon un modèle de distanciation. Ses romans sont fondés sur beaucoup de romanesque et font même usage du suspense. Bien qu’il ne le revendique pas lui-même1, L'Absolue Perfection du crime, Insoupçonnable, Paris-Brest et Article 353 du Code pénal sont généralement considérés comme des romans policiers en raison d’éléments récurrents : des personnages de gangste

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  Don DeLillo

  Donald Richard DeLillo is an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, screenwriter and essayist. His works have covered subjects as diverse as television, nuclear war, the complexities of language, art, the advent of the Digital Age, mathematics, politics, economics, and sports.
  DeLillo was already a well-regarded cult writer in 1985, when the publication of White Noise brought him widespread recognition and the National Book Award for fiction. He followed this in 1988 with Libra, a novel about the Kennedy assassination. DeLillo won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Mao II, about terrorism and the media's scrutiny of writers' private lives, and the William Dean Howells Medal for Underworld, a historical novel that ranges in time from the

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  Anne Hébert

  Anne Hébert was a Canadian author and poet. She won Canada's top literary honor, the Governor General's Award, three times, twice for fiction and once for poetry.
  
  
  
  
  

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  Émile Zola

  Émile Zola was a prominent French novelist, journalist, and playwright widely regarded as a key figure in the development of literary naturalism. His work profoundly influenced both literature and society through its commitment to depicting reality with scientific objectivity and exploring the impact of environment and heredity on human behavior. Born and raised in France, Zola experienced early personal hardship following the death of his father, which deeply affected his understanding of social and economic struggles—a theme that would later permeate his writings.
  Zola began his literary career working as a clerk for a publishing house, where he developed his skills and cultivated a passion for literature. His early novels, such as Thérèse

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  Jean Racine

  Classical Greek and Roman themes base noted tragedies, such as Britannicus (1669) and Phèdre (1677), of French playwright Jean Baptiste Racine.
  
  Adherents of movement of Cornelis Jansen included Jean Baptiste Racine.
  
  
  This dramatist ranks alongside Molière (Jean Baptiste Poquelin) and Pierre Corneille of the "big three" of 17th century and of the most important literary figures in the western tradition. Psychological insight, the prevailing passion of characters, and the nakedness of both plot and stage mark dramaturgy of Racine. Although primarily a tragedian, Racine wrote one comedy.
  
  Orphaned by the age of four years when his mother died in 1641 and his father died in 1643, he came into the care of his grandparents. At the death of

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  Georges Perec

  Georges Perec was a highly-regarded French novelist, filmmaker, and essayist. He was a member of the Oulipo group. Many of his novels and essays abound with experimental wordplay, lists, and attempts at classification, and they are usually tinged with melancholy.
  
  Born in a working-class district of Paris, Perec was the only son of Icek Judko and Cyrla (Schulewicz) Peretz, Polish Jews who had emigrated to France in the 1920s. He was a distant relative of the Yiddish writer Isaac Leib Peretz.
  
  Perec's first novel, Les Choses (Things: A Story of the Sixties) was awarded the Prix Renaudot in 1965.
  
  In 1978, Perec won the prix Médicis for Life: A User's Manual (French title, La Vie mode d'emploi), possibly his best-known work. The 99 chapters of thi

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  John Fante

  Fante's early years were spent in relative poverty. The son of an Italian born father, Nicola Fante, and an Italian-American mother, Mary Capolungo, Fante was educated in various Catholic schools in Boulder and Denver, Colorado, and briefly attended the University of Colorado.
  
  In 1929, he dropped out of college and moved to Southern California to concentrate on his writing. He lived and worked in Wilmington, Long Beach, and in the Bunker Hill district of downtown Los Angeles, California.
  
  He is known to be one of the first writers to portray the tough times faced by many writers in L.A. His work and style has influenced such similar authors as "Poet Laureate of Skid Row" Charles Bukowski and influential beat generation writer Jack Kerouac. He

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• Vénus Khoury-Ghata

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  Molière

  Sophisticated comedies of French playwright Molière, pen name of Jean Baptiste Poquelin, include Tartuffe (1664), The Misanthrope (1666), and The Bourgeois Gentleman (1670).
  
  French literary figures, including Molière and Jean de la Fontaine, gathered at Auteuil, a favorite place.
  
  People know and consider Molière, stage of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, also an actor of the greatest masters in western literature. People best know l'Ecole des femmes (The School for Wives), l'Avare ou l'École du mensonge (The Miser), and le Malade imaginaire (The Imaginary Invalid) among dramas of Molière.
  
  From a prosperous family, Molière studied at the Jesuit Clermont college (now lycée Louis-le-Grand) and well suited to begin a life in the

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  Annie Ernaux

  The author of some twenty works of fiction and memoir, Annie Ernaux is considered by many to be France’s most important writer. In 2022, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She has also won the Prix Renaudot for A Man's Place and the Marguerite Yourcenar Prize for her body of work. More recently she received the International Strega Prize, the Prix Formentor, the French-American Translation Prize, and the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation for The Years, which was also shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2019. Her other works include Exteriors, A Girl's Story, A Woman's Story, The Possession, Simple Passion, Happening, I Remain in Darkness, Shame, A Frozen Woman, and A Man's Place.

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  Alain Mabanckou

  Alain Mabanckou was born in 1966 in Congo-Brazzaville (French Congo). He currently resides in Los Angeles, where he teaches literature at UCLA, having previously spent four years at the University of Michigan. Mabanckou will be a Fellow in the Humanities Council at Princeton University in 2007-2008. One of Francophone Africa's most prolific contemporary writers, he is the author of six volumes of poetry and six novels. He received the Sub-Saharan Africa Literary Prize in 1999 for his first novel, Blue-White-Red, the Prize of the Five Francophone Continents for Broken Glass, and the Prix Renaudot in 2006 for Memoirs of a Porcupine. He was selected by the French publishing trade journal Lire as one of the fifty writers to watch out for in the

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  Louise Labé

  The precise date of Louise Labé's birth is unknown. She is born somewhere between 1516 (her parents marriage) and 1523 (her mother's death).
  Both her father and her stepmother Antoinette Taillard (whom Pierre Charly married following Etiennette Roybet's death in 1523) were illiterate, but Labé received an education in Latin, Italian and music, perhaps in a convent school.
  At the siege of Perpignan, or in a tournament there, she is said to have dressed in male clothing and fought on horseback in the ranks of the Dauphin, afterwards Henry II.
  Between 1543 and 1545 she married Ennemond Perrin, a ropemaker.
  She became active in a circle of Lyonnais poets and humanists grouped around the figure of Maurice Scève. Her Œuvres were printed in 1555, by t

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  Michael McDowell

  Michael McDowell is a prolific horror writer who has distinguished himself with a varied body of work within the genre. He was born in Enterprise, Alabama, in 1950 and died of AIDS-related illness in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1999.
  
  His first horror novel, The Amulet, relates the tragedies that befall various individuals who come in possession of a supernatural pendant in a small town.
  
  In McDowell's second novel, Cold Moon Over Babylon, a murdered woman's corpse is dispatched into a river, but her spirit roams the land, and in the evening hours it seeks revenge on her killer even as he plots the demise of her surviving relatives.
  
  Don D'Ammassa, writing in the St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost & Gothic Writers, noted that McDowell's ability to

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  Gérard de Nerval

  Gérard de Nerval was the nom-de-plume of the French poet, essayist and translator Gérard Labrunie, one of the most essentially Romantic French poets.
  
  Gérard de Nerval, nom de plume de Gérard Labrunie, écrivain et poète français. Figure majeure du romantisme français, il est essentiellement connu pour ses poèmes et ses nouvelles.

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  Emmanuel Carrère

  Emmanuel Carrère is a French author, screenwriter, and director. He is the son of Louis Carrère d'Encausse and French historian Hélène Carrère d'Encausse.
  
  Carrère studied at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris (better known as Sciences Po). Much of his writing, both fiction and nonfiction, centers around the primary themes of the interrogation of identity, the development of illusion, and the direction of reality. Several of his books have been made into films; in 2005, he personally directed the film adaptation of his novel La Moustache. He was the president of the jury of the book Inter 2003.
  
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  Hiromi Kawakami

  Kawakami Hiromi (川上弘美 Kawakami Hiromi) born April 1, 1958, is a Japanese writer known for her off-beat fiction.
  
  Born in Tokyo, Kawakami graduated from Ochanomizu Women's College in 1980. She made her debut as "Yamada Hiromi" in NW-SF No. 16, edited by Yamano Koichi and Yamada Kazuko, in 1980 with the story So-shimoku ("Diptera"), and also helped edit some early issues of NW-SF in the 1970s. She reinvented herself as a writer and wrote her first book, a collection of short stories entitled God (Kamisama) published in 1994. Her novel The Teacher's Briefcase (Sensei no kaban) is a love story between a woman in her thirties and a man in his sixties. She is also known as a literary critic and a provocative essayist.
  
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  Tanguy Viel

  Tanguy Viel, né le 27 décembre 1973 à Brest, est un écrivain français.
  Tanguy Viel est réputé pour une mise en place d’intrigues complexes, une réflexion sur quelques thèmes récurrents (les liens familiaux, les duperies, les inégalités de classes et les difficultés à prendre l’ascenseur social), et un travail formel. Il s’inscrit dans la tradition des éditions de Minuit3, c’est-à-dire selon un modèle de distanciation. Ses romans sont fondés sur beaucoup de romanesque et font même usage du suspense. Bien qu’il ne le revendique pas lui-même1, L'Absolue Perfection du crime, Insoupçonnable, Paris-Brest et Article 353 du Code pénal sont généralement considérés comme des romans policiers en raison d’éléments récurrents : des personnages de gangste

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• Joy Sorman

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• Marie Hélène Poitras

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  Madame d'Aulnoy

  Madame d'Aulnoy (Marie-Catherine Le Jumel de Barneville, Baroness d'Aulnoy) (1650/1651–4 January 1705) was a French writer known for her fairy tales. When she termed her works contes de fées (fairy tales, or literally, "Tales of the Fairies."), she originated the term that is now generally used for the genre. Her 'fairy tales' were written in a style suitable for entertaining in adult salon gatherings, and not with a child audience in mind.
  
  d'Aulnoy also wrote works of history (although not using modern attitudes to historical accuracy), pseudo-memoirs, and a few historical novels.
  
  Born a member of the noble Le Jumel de Barneville family, she was known as the baronne d'Aulnoy by marriage.

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• Deni Ellis Béchard

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  Leïla Slimani

  Leïla Slimani is a French writer and journalist of Moroccan ancestry. In 2016 she was awarded the Prix Goncourt for her novel Chanson douce.
  
  Slimani was born in Rabat, Morocco and studied later political science and media studies in Paris. After that she temporarily considered a career as an actress and began to work as a journalist for the magazine Jeune Afrique. In 2014 she published her first novel Dans le jardin de l’ogre, which two years later was followed by the psychological thriller Chanson douce. The latter quickly turned into a bestseller with over 450,000 copies printed within a year even before the book was awarded the Prix Goncourt.

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  Neige Sinno

  Neige Sinno is a French writer who has studied American literature in the United States and Mexico, and worked as a translator and literature professor. She is the author of two previous books, Le Camion and La Vie des rats. Born in France, she has lived in Mexico for the past 20 years. Her 2023 book, Triste tigre, won several of France’s top literary prizes and became the publishing sensation of the year.

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  Caroline Dawson

  Caroline Dawson est née en 1979 à Valparaiso au Chili. Elle est professeure de sociologie au cégep Édouard-Montpetit à Longueuil et autrice de Là où je me terre (2020) publié aux Éditions Remue-ménage.
  
  Ses années d'études supérieures sont marquées d'un parcours militant et d'une implication politique au sein de sa communauté universitaire. En 2004, elle publie, sous la direction du professeur de sociologie de l'Université de Montréal et de ses collègues étudiants, un article intitulé « Génération numérique et nouvelle économie » dans une revue appartenant aujourd'hui aux Éditions Presses de Sciences Po. L'article est une analyse de l'insertion des jeunes socialement et professionnellement dans une société où la « culture Internet » est de pl

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  Panayotis Pascot

  Panayotis Pascot est comédien, humoriste et écrivain.
  
  Il débute sa carrière à la télévision en 2015, alors qu'il n'a que 17 ans, avec une chronique hebdomadaire dans le Petit Journal. L'année suivante, il suit Yann Barthès qui décide de quitter Canal + pour lancer Quotidien sur TMC. Cette deuxième saison sera sa dernière.
  
  En 2019, il se lance dans un seul en scène intitulé Presque, et dont il clôture la tournée à succès en 2022.
  
  Il a également pu être aperçu au cinéma, entre autres, dans "Mon chien stupide" d’Yvan Attal, "Le Daim "de Quentin Dupieux ou encore dans la série "De Grâce" de Vincent Cardonna.
  
  "La prochaine fois que tu mordras la poussière" est son premier roman.

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• Alexandra Boilard-Lefebvre

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