Philippe Collin
Philippe Collin est un producteur de radio, auteur et journaliste. Il effectue des études d'histoire à l'Université de Bretagne occidentale, à Brest. Il est titulaire d'une maîtrise d'histoire contemporaine consacrée à l'épuration des collaborateurs à la Libération.
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Bernard Georges Moitessier was a French sailor and writer, most notable for his participation in the 1968 Sunday Times Golden Globe Race, the first non-stop, singlehanded, round the world yacht race.
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Bernard Georges Moitessier est un navigateur et écrivain français, auteur de plusieurs livres relatant ses voyages. En 1968, il participe à la première course autour du monde, en solitaire et sans escale, le Golden Globe Challenge. -
Régine Deforges
Born in Montmorillon, Vienne (but currently living in Paris), she is sometimes called the "High Priestess of French erotic literature." Deforges was the first woman to own and operate a publishing house in France. Over the years, she has been censored, prosecuted, and heavily fined for publishing "offensive" literature. She was formerly president of the Société des Gens de Lettres de France and a member of the Prix Femina jury.
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Gianfranco Calligarich
Gianfranco Calligarich was an Italian novelist, screenwriter and dramatist.
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Alfred de Vigny
Alfred Victor de Vigny (1797-1863) was born in Loches (a town to which he never returned) into an aristocratic family. His father was an aged veteran of the Seven Years' War who died before Vigny's 20th birthday; his mother, twenty years younger, was a strong-willed woman who was inspired by Rousseau and took responsibility herself for Vigny's early education.
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As was the case for every noble family, the French Revolution diminished the family's circumstances considerably. After Napoléon's defeat at Waterloo, a Bourbon, Louis XVIII, the brother of Louis XVI, was restored to power. In 1814, Vigny enrolled in one of the privileged aristocratic companies of the Maison du Roi.
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Christophe Ono-Dit-Biot
Christophe Ono-Dit-Biot is a French writer and journalist.
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Olivier Adam
Romancier de renom, Olivier Adam connaît un succès populaire et critique indéniable qui le place parmi les écrivains les plus connus de sa génération. Ancien étudiant en gestion des entreprises culturelles, il participe à la création du festival littéraire 'Les Correspondances de Manosque' et travaille comme directeur de collection aux éditions du Rouergue. C'est son premier roman paru en 2000, 'Je vais bien, ne t'en fais pas' qui lui permet d'accéder à la notoriété. Lauréat du prix Goncourt de la nouvelle en 2004 pour 'Passer l'hiver', l'auteur poursuit néanmoins dans la veine romanesque avec 'Falaises' ou 'À l'abri de rien'. Des histoires plein la tête, Olivier Adam sort coup sur coup 'Des vents contraires' (2009) et 'Le coeur régulier' (
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Jean-Christophe Rufin
Jean-Christophe Rufin is a French doctor and novelist. He is the president of Action Against Hunger and one of the founders of Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors without borders). He was Ambassador of France in Senegal from 2007 to June 2010.
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Rufin was born in Bourges, Cher in 1952. An only child, he was raised by his grandparents, because his father had left the family and his mother worked in Paris. His grandfather, a doctor and member of the French Resistance during World War II, had been imprisoned for two years at Buchenwald.
In 1977, after medical school, Rufin went to Tunisia as a volunteer doctor. He led his first humanitarian mission in Eritrea,where he met Azeb, who became his second wife.
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Xavier Coste
Xavier Coste est un auteur de bande dessinée et illustrateur français, né le 6 mai 1989 à Bayeux en Normandie.
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Il est titulaire d'une licence en Arts Graphiques de la prestigieuse école Penninghen à Paris. En mai 2012, en tant qu’auteur, il sort son premier album biographique "Egon Schiele, vivre et mourir" chez Casterman : il se concentre sur la romance de l’artiste peintre autrichien Egon Schiele. Il a directement travaillé à l’ordinateur avant de le tâtonner et de le recarder.
En mai 2013, il présente son second album "Rimbaud, l'indésirable" chez le même éditeur, une biographie du poète Arthur Rimbaud. En janvier 2015, "À la dérive" est consacré à la crue de la Seine de 1910. -
Aurélien Bellanger
Aurélien Bellanger (né en 1980 à Laval) est un écrivain français, philosophe de formation. Il publie un essai sur Michel Houellebecq en 2010, intitulé Houellebecq écrivain romantique, aux éditions Léo Scheer. Son premier roman, La Théorie de l'information, paraît le 22 août 2012 aux éditions Gallimard. Il est aussi occasionnellement acteur dans les films de Justine Triet.
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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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Robert Merle
Born in Tebessa located in ,what was then, the French colony of Algeria. Robert Merle and his family moved to France in 1918. Merle wrote in many styles and won the Prix Goncourt for his novel Week-end à Zuydcoote. He has also written a 13 book series of historical novels, Fortune de France. Recreating 16th and 17th century France through the eyes of a fictitious Protestant doctor turned spy, he went so far as to write it in the period's French making it virtually untranslatable.
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His novels Un animal doué de la raison (A Sentient Animal, 1967), a stark Cold War satire inspired by John Lilly's studies of dolphins and the Caribbean Crisis, and Malevil (1972), a post-apocalyptic story, were both translated into English and filmed, the former as -
Sang Young Park
Sang Young Park was born in 1988 and studied French at Sungkyunkwan University. He worked as a magazine editor, copywriter, and consultant before debuting as a novelist. The title story of his bestselling short story collection, The Tears of an Unknown Artist, or Zaytun Pasta, was one of Words Without Borders’ most read pieces ever. He is the author of Booker International-longlisted Love in the Big City (translated by Anton Hur). He lives in Seoul.
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C.G. Drews
CG Drews is the award-winning author of The Boy Who Steals Houses and NYT Bestseller Don’t Let The Forest In, which is also a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection, Indie Next Pick, and Barnes & Noble YA Book Club Pick. Their next YA horror, Hazelthorn, is out October 28th, 2025, with debut adult horror, You Did Nothing Wrong, coming in 2026. Their work has been translated into six languages, received a nomination for the 2020 CILIP Carnegie Medal, and won the 2020 CBCA Honour Award. CG lives in Australia, never sleeps, and is forever buried under a pile of unread books. Find on Instagram as @paperfury, TikTok as @cgdrews, and at cgdrews.com.
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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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Gaël Faye
French-Rwandan Gaël Faye is an author, composer and hip hop artist. He was born in 1982 in Burundi, and has a Rwandan mother and French father. In 1995, after the outbreak of the civil war and the Rwandan genocide, the family moved to France. Gaël studied finance and worked in London for two years for an investment fund, then he left London to embark on a career of writing and music. He is as influenced by Creole literature as he is by hip hop culture, and released an album in 2010 with the group Milk Coffee & Sugar. In 2013, his first solo album, Pili Pili sur un Croissant au Beurre, appeared. It was recorded between Bujumbura and Paris, and is filled with a plethora of musical influences: rap laced with soul and jazz, semba, Congolese rum
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Miguel Bonnefoy
Miguel Bonnefoy was born in France in 1986 to a Venezuelan mother and a Chilean father. In 2013, he was awarded the Prix du Jeune Ecrivain, which has previously helped to launch the careers of writers such as Marie Darrieussecq. Octavio's Journey is Bonnefoy's first novel, written in French.
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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.
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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. -
Marie-Andree Gill
Marie-Andrée Gill est originaire de Mashteuiatsh et voue un culte aux métaphores savoureuses et à plusieurs poètes et écrivains. C'est tout naturellement qu'elle a entrepris d'écrire à son tour un premier recueil de poésie publié à compte d'auteur, Béante, en réimpression. Parallèlement, elle habite sur une montagne perdue et essaie d'élever ses trois garçons à coup de bandes dessinées, de dictionnaires et de mangas. Elle aime bien suivre des cours au Bac en littérature de l'Université du Québec à Chicoutimi et a très hâte de commencer un autre projet d'écriture parce que ça la fait vraiment « tripper ».
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Olivier Norek
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Sandrine Collette
Sandrine Collette was born in Paris in 1970. She divides her time between Nanterre, where she teaches philosophy and literature, and Burgundy, where she has a horse stud farm. She is the author of numerous novels. Nothing but Dust, winner of the Landerneau Prize for crime fiction, was her English-language debut.
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Kamel Daoud
Né en 1970 à Mostaganem, Kamel Daoud est journaliste au Quotidien d’Oran où il tient une chronique à succès « Raïna raïkoum ». Il est l’auteur de plusieurs ouvrages dont le recueil de nouvelles La Préface du nègre ( barzakh, 2008 ) récompensé par le Prix Mohammed Dib et traduit en allemand ainsi qu’en italien.
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The Algerian writer and journalist, Kamel Daoud is the winner of the edition 2014 of the Five Continents Prize. This was the decision of the jury chaired by the Nobel Prize of literature, Jean-Marie Gustave Clézio on 26th September 2014 in Paris at the head office of the International Organization of the Francophonie. The novel “Meursault, The Counter-Inquiry” (Barzakh Editions in 2013) by the Algerian author -
Wilfrid Lupano
Wilfrid Lupano is a French comics writer. Born in Nantes, he spent most of his childhood in Pau. Growing up, he buried himself in his parents’ comics-book collection, and his wild imagination and interest in writing stems from a love of role-playing games.
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As a young adult Lupano worked as a server to finance his studies in philosophy and English. With his friends and creative partners, Roland Pignault and Fred Campoy, he created the humorous western Little Big Joe, among other works. -
Karine Tuil
Après des études de droit et un diplôme de l'Université Paris II, Karine Tuil est l'auteur de neuf romans, d'une pièce de théâtre et de plusieurs scénarios.
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En septembre 2000 parait son premier roman Pour le Pire aux éditions Plon qui inaugure une collection "jeunes auteurs". Il relate la lente décomposition d'un couple. il est plébiscité par les libraires mais c'est son second roman, Interdit, (Plon 2001) - récit burlesque de la crise identitaire d'un vieux juif - qui connaît un succès critique et public. Sélectionné pour plusieurs prix dont le prix Goncourt, Interdit obtient le prix Wizo. Il est traduit en plusieurs langues. Le sens de l'ironie et de la tragi-comédie, l'humour juif se retrouvent encore dans 'Du sexe féminin' en 2002 - une -
Pierre Lemaitre
Pierre Lemaitre is a French novelist and screenwriter. He is internationally renowned for the crime novels featuring the fictional character Commandant Camille Verhœven.
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His first novel that was translated into English, Alex, is a translation of the French book with the same title, it jointly won the CWA International Dagger for best translated crime novel of 2013.
In November 2013, he was awarded the Prix Goncourt, France's top literary prize, for Au revoir là-haut (published in English as The Great Swindle), an epic about World War I. His novels Camille and The Great Swindle won the CWA International Dagger in 2015 and 2016 respectively. -
Simone Veil
Simone Veil, née Jacob, est une femme politique française.
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Elle est la fille cadette d'une famille juive, non pratiquante et foncièrement laïque. Arrêté le 30 mars 1944, elle est internée dans le camp de Drancy, d'ou elle est transferée le 13 avril au camp d'extermination nazis Auschwitz-Birkenau, en compagnie de sa mère et sa sœur Madeleine. Transférés à Bobrek, elles participent dans la marche de la mort jusqu'au camp de Bergen-Belsen, où sa mère meurt du typhus. Quand Bergen-Belsen est libéré par les troupes britanniques le 15 avril 1945, elle a perdu son père, sa mère, son frère.
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Giuliano da Empoli
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David Foenkinos
David Foenkinos is a French novelist, playwright, screenwriter and director who studied both literature and music in Paris.
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His novel La délicatesse is a bestseller in France. A film based on the book was released in December 2011, with Audrey Tautou as the main character. His novels have appeared in over forty languages, and in 2014 he was awarded the Prix Renaudot for his novel Charlotte.
Growing up in a home with few books and often absent parents, David Foenkinos read and wrote little during his childhood. At 16, he required emergency surgery as a result of a rare pleural infection and spent several months recuperating in hospital, where he began to devour books, learning to paint and play the guitar. From this experience, he says, he kep -
Patti Smith
PATTI SMITH is a writer, performer, and visual artist. She gained recognition in the 1970s for her revolutionary merging of poetry and rock. She has released twelve albums, including Horses, which has been hailed as one of the top one hundred albums of all time by Rolling Stone.
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Smith had her first exhibit of drawings at the Gotham Book Mart in 1973 and has been represented by the Robert Miller Gallery since 1978. Her books include Just Kids, winner of the National Book Award in 2010, Wītt, Babel, Woolgathering, The Coral Sea, and Auguries of Innocence.
In 2005, the French Ministry of Culture awarded Smith the title of Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres, the highest honor given to an artist by the French Republic. She was inducted into the -
Manu Larcenet
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Gaël Faye
French-Rwandan Gaël Faye is an author, composer and hip hop artist. He was born in 1982 in Burundi, and has a Rwandan mother and French father. In 1995, after the outbreak of the civil war and the Rwandan genocide, the family moved to France. Gaël studied finance and worked in London for two years for an investment fund, then he left London to embark on a career of writing and music. He is as influenced by Creole literature as he is by hip hop culture, and released an album in 2010 with the group Milk Coffee & Sugar. In 2013, his first solo album, Pili Pili sur un Croissant au Beurre, appeared. It was recorded between Bujumbura and Paris, and is filled with a plethora of musical influences: rap laced with soul and jazz, semba, Congolese rum
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Margaret Mitchell
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Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell, popularly known as Margaret Mitchell, was an American author, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937 for her novel, Gone with the Wind, published in 1936. The novel is one of the most popular books of all time, selling more than 28 million copies. An American film adaptation, released in 1939, became the highest-grossing film in the history of Hollywood, and received a record-breaking number of Academy Awards.
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François-Henri Désérable
François-Henri Désérable (born Amiens, France, 6 February 1987) is a French author and a former professional ice hockey player.
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Nicolas Mathieu
Nicolas Mathieu is a French author and winner of the prestigious Prix Goncourt in 2018.
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Giuliano da Empoli
Giuliano da Empoli è un saggista e consigliere politico italiano e svizzero che vive a Parigi, dove insegna politica comparata a Sciences-Po. Nato in Francia, è cresciuto in diversi paesi europei, si è laureato in Giurisprudenza all'Università La Sapienza di Roma e ottenuto il master in Scienze Politiche all'Institut d'études politiques di Parigi. E'presidente del think tank Volta.
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Jean-Paul Dubois
Jean-Paul Dubois (b. 1950) is a French journalist and author. He is the author of several novels and travel pieces, and reports for Le Nouvel Observateur. His novel, Une vie française, published in French in 2004 and in English in 2007, is a saga of the French baby boom generation, from the idealism of the 1960s to the consumerism of the 1990s. The French version of the novel won the Prix Femina. He won the Prix Goncourt in 2019 for Tous les hommes n'habitent pas le monde de la même façon ("All Men Do Not Inhabit This World in the Same Way"), a novel told from the perspective of a prisoner looking back on life.
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Alexandru N. Stermin
ALEXANDRU N. STERMIN este biolog și explorator. Predă la Facultatea de Biologie și Geologie a Universității Babeș‑Bolyai cursuri de anatomia comparată a vertebratelor, etologie, bioetică și ecologie umană. Este licențiat în biologie și teologie, a absolvit un masterat în filozofie și un program de formare în psihoterapie pozitivă.
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A participat la expediții în jungla Americii de Sud și în Siberia, a fost bursier la Universitatea din Greifswald și la Universitatea de Stat din Rio de Janeiro. Se implică activ în popularizarea științei și conservarea naturii. În 2015 a contribuit la seria Fauna României (Păsări) publicată de Academia Română. În 2017 și-a lansat prima carte, Jurnalul unui ornitolog. Scrie articole în revistele Sinteza și Nationa -
Victoria Mas
Victoria Mas was born in 1987. The Mad Women's Ball, her first novel, has won several prizes in France (including the Prix Stanislas and Prix Renaudot des Lycéens) and been hailed as the bestselling debut of the season. She has worked in film in the United States, where she lived for eight years. She graduated from the Sorbonne University in Contemporary Literature.
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Gisèle Halimi
Born Zeiza Gisèle Élise Taïeb. Lawyer who defended FLN militants during the Algerian War and fought to expand abortion access and criminalize rape.
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Mike Horn
Aventurier de l'extrême, Mike Horn naît en Afrique du Sud, où ses parents étaient enseignants. Le sport est l'activité principale de son enfance : rugby, cricket, athlétisme, tennis et vélo sont, entre autres, les disciplines dans lesquelles il excelle. Diplômé de Science du mouvement humain à l'université de Stellenbosch, il travaille ensuite dans l'entreprise de fruits et légumes de son oncle, à Johannesburg. En vendant une cargaison de choux trois fois le prix du marché, sa vie change : à 24 ans, il gagne beaucoup d'argent et décide de changer de vie. Il ne garde qu'un sac à dos et de quoi se payer un billet d'avion. Son premier contact avec l'aventure a lieu en 1991 : il explore les Andes péruviennes en rafting et en parapente. Plus tar
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Delphine Horvilleur
Elle est une femme rabbin française appartenant à l'organisation juive libérale Judaïsme en mouvement issue du Mouvement juif libéral de France et de l'Union libérale israélite de France, écrivain et philosophe.
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Elle est membre du Conseil des rabbins libéraux francophones ainsi que directrice de la rédaction de la Revue de pensée(s) juive(s) Tenou'a.
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She is France's third female rabbi, and (as of 2012) editorial director of the quarterly Jewish magazine "Revue de pensée(s) juive(s) Tenou'a". She leads a congregation in Paris, and is currently co-leading the Liberal Jewish Movement of France, a Jewish liberal cultural and religious association affiliated to the World Union for Progressive Judaism. -
Négar Djavadi
Négar Djavadi was born in Iran in 1969 to a family of intellectuals opposed to the regimes both of the Shah, then of Khomeini. She arrived in France at the age of eleven, having crossed the mountains of Kurdistan on horseback with her mother and sister. She is a screenwriter and lives in Paris. Disoriental is her first novel.
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Nathacha Appanah
See also: Nathacha Appanah-Mouriquand
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Nathacha Devi Pathareddy Appanah is a Mauritian-French author. She comes from a traditional Indian family.
She spent most of her teenage years in Mauritius and also worked as a journalist/columnist at Le Mauricien and Week-End Scope before emigrating to France.
Since 1998, Nathacha Appanah is well-known as an active writer. Her first book Les Rochers de Poudre d'Or (published by Éditions Gallimard) received the " Prix du Livre RFO". The book was based on the arrival of Indian immigrants in Mauritius.
She also wrote two other books Blue Bay Palace and La Noce d'Anna which also received some prizes for best book in some regional festivals in France.
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Miguel Bonnefoy
Miguel Bonnefoy was born in France in 1986 to a Venezuelan mother and a Chilean father. In 2013, he was awarded the Prix du Jeune Ecrivain, which has previously helped to launch the careers of writers such as Marie Darrieussecq. Octavio's Journey is Bonnefoy's first novel, written in French.
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Adam Biles
Adam is the author of Grey Cats, which was runner-up in the inaugural Paris Literary Prize in 2011, and published by 3:AM Press in 2012. His short stories, poetry and translations have been published in journals including 3:AM Magazine, Vestoj, and Chimera, as well as being displayed in the Palais de Tokyo. In May 2012, his ficto-essay The Deep was published in a bilingual edition by Editions de la Houle, a new Belgian house.
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Aura Xilonen
Aura Xilonen is a novelist and filmmaker. She won the 2015 Premio Mauricio Achar for her first novel, Gringo Champion, published in Mexico under a pseudonym when she was just 19.
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Delphine Minoui
Delphine Minoui (born 1974) is an award-winning author and journalist whose work focuses on the Middle East. Born to a French mother and Iranian father, she has lived and worked in Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon and Egypt. She is currently based in Istanbul (Turkey), where she works as a correspondent for Le Figaro newspaper. Besides her commitment to journalism, for which she has received the Prix Albert Londres 2006, she has written six books, including “Tripoliwood” (Grasset), “I’m writing you from Tehran (Le Seuil, newly translated in English and published by Farrar Straus and Giroux). In 2018, she turned her latest book, “The book rescuers of Daraya, a secret library in Syria” (“Les passeurs de livres de Daraya, une bibliothèque secr
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Margaret Kennedy
Margaret Kennedy was an English novelist and playwright.
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She attended Cheltenham Ladies' College, where she began writing, and then went up to Somerville College, Oxford in 1915 to read history. Her first publication was a history book, A Century of Revolution (1922). Margaret Kennedy was married to the barrister David Davies. They had a son and two daughters, one of whom was the novelist Julia Birley. The novelist Serena Mackesy is her grand-daughter. -
Hervé Le Tellier
Hervé Le Tellier is a writer, journalist, mathematician, food critic, and teacher. He has been a member of the Oulipo group since 1992 and one of the “papous” of the famous France Culture radio show. He has published fifteen books of stories, essays, and novels, including Enough About Love (Other Press, 2011), The Sextine Chapel (Dalkey Archive Press, 2011), and A Thousand Pearls (Dalkey Archive Press, 2011).
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Frédéric Beigbeder
Beigbeder was born into a privileged family in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. His mother, Christine de Chasteigner, is a translator of mawkish novels ( Barbara Cartland et al.); his father, Jean-Michel Beigbeder, is a headhunter. He studied at the Lycée Montaigne and Louis-le-Grand, and later at the Institut D'Etudes Politiques de Paris. Upon graduation at the at the age of 24, began work as an advertising executive, author, broadcaster, publisher, and dilettante.
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In 1994, Beigbeder founded the "Prix de Flore", which takes its name from the famous and plush Café de Flore in Saint-Germain-des-Prés. The prize is awarded annually to a promising young French author. Vincent Ravalec, Jacques A. Bertrand, Michel Houellebecq are among those who h -
Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse
Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse was born in Rwanda in 1979. She survived the genocide against the Tutsi people and in 1994 moved to France, where she still lives, to study political science. She has published novels and poetry.
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Laurent Gaudé
Laurent Gaudé est un romancier et dramaturge français. Après avoir été nommé pour le Prix Concourt 2002 avec La mort du roi Tsongor, il a gagné ce prix en 2004 pour son roman Le Soleil des Scorta.
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He studied theater and has written many dramatic works, among them Onysos le furieux, Cendres sur les mains, Médée Kali, and Le Tigre bleu de l'Euphrate.
In 2002 he was shortlisted for the Prix Goncourt for La Mort du roi Tsongor. Two years later, he won the prize for his novel The Scortas' Sun (French: Le Soleil des Scorta). -
Kamel Daoud
Né en 1970 à Mostaganem, Kamel Daoud est journaliste au Quotidien d’Oran où il tient une chronique à succès « Raïna raïkoum ». Il est l’auteur de plusieurs ouvrages dont le recueil de nouvelles La Préface du nègre ( barzakh, 2008 ) récompensé par le Prix Mohammed Dib et traduit en allemand ainsi qu’en italien.
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The Algerian writer and journalist, Kamel Daoud is the winner of the edition 2014 of the Five Continents Prize. This was the decision of the jury chaired by the Nobel Prize of literature, Jean-Marie Gustave Clézio on 26th September 2014 in Paris at the head office of the International Organization of the Francophonie. The novel “Meursault, The Counter-Inquiry” (Barzakh Editions in 2013) by the Algerian author -
Yasmina Khadra
Yasmina Khadra (Arabic: ياسمينة خضراء, literally "green jasmine") is the pen name of the Algerian author Mohammed Moulessehoul.
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Moulessehoul, an officer in the Algerian army, adopted a woman's pseudonym to avoid military censorship. Despite the publication of many successful novels in Algeria, Moulessehoul only revealed his true identity in 2001 after leaving the army and going into exile and seclusion in France. Anonymity was the only way for him to survive and avoid censorship during the Algerian Civil War.
In 2004, Newsweek acclaimed him as "one of the rare writers capable of giving a meaning to the violence in Algeria today."
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Andrea Marcolongo
Andrea Marcolongo, nata nel 1987 e laureata in Lettere classiche presso l'Università degli Studi di Milano, è una scrittrice italiana attualmente tradotta in 27 Paesi. Autrice de La lingua geniale. 9 ragioni per amare il greco (Laterza, 2016) e de La misura eroica (Mondadori, 2018), scrive per TuttoLibri de «La Stampa». Traduttrice dal greco, visiting professor presso l'Universidad de Los Andes di Bogotá e l'UNAM di Città del Messico e presidente 2019 del Festival de l'histoire di Blois, è stata finalista in Francia al Prix des Lecteurs. Ora vive a Parigi.
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Akira Yoshimura
Prize winning Japanese writer. Akira Yoshimura was the president of the Japanese writers union and a PEN member. He published over 20 novels, of which in particular On Parole and Shipwrecks are internationally known and have been translated into several languages. In 1984 he received the Yomiuri Prize for his novel Hagoku (破獄,engl. prison break) based on the true story of Yoshie Shiratori.
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Jean-François Beauchemin
Jean-François Beauchemin a été tour à tour rédacteur, concepteur puis réalisateur à la Société Radio-Canada. Une première trilogie constituée de Comme enfant je suis cuit, Garage Molinari et Les Choses terrestres, s’inspirait de l’émouvante profondeur de l’enfance. Il s’est également adressé aux adolescents avec la parution en 2001 de Mon père est une chaise. Au secteur adulte, on lui doit aussi Le Petit Pont de la Louve et Turkana Boy. Le Hasard et la volonté s’inscrit dans la lignée des romans La Fabrication de l’aube (Prix des libraires 2007), Ceci est mon corps, Cette année s’envole ma jeunesse et Le Temps qui m’est donné. En 2013, il publie une édition en format compact du Jour des corneilles, roman d'abord paru chez les Allusifs et la
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Djaïli Amadou Amal
Djaïli Amadou Amal, née en 1975 à Maroua dans le département de Diamaré situé dans la région de l'Extrême-Nord du Cameroun, est une militante féministe et écrivaine camerounaise.
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Djaïli Amadou Amal entreprend des études supérieures en gestion commerciale. Mariée à dix-sept ans dans le cadre d'un mariage arrangé, Djaïli a connu tout ce qui rend si difficile la vie des femmes du Sahel. « Dans tout ce que je fais, j'essaie surtout de parler des discriminations faites aux femmes ; c'est mon cheval de bataille ! La presse camerounaise m'a même surnommée la "voix des sans voix" ! ». Djaïli Amadou Amal dénonce les pesanteurs sociales liées aux traditions et aux religions1. A travers l'écriture elle dénonce en somme les problèmes sociaux de sa régio -
François Kersaudy
Le professeur François Kersaudy, historien polyglotte et biographe de Churchill, Goering et Mountbatten, est aussi l'auteur du seul ouvrage au monde sur les relations entre de Gaulle et Churchill (Perrin). Dans la collection Maîtres de Guerre, il a également écrit Hitler, Staline et MacArthur.
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Gérard de Cortanze
Gérard de Cortanze is a French writer, essayist, translator and literary critic. He won the Prix Renaudot in 2002 for his historical novel Assam. He was awarded chevalier of the Legion of Honor in 2009.
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He is President of the Jury Prize for the Jean Monnet prize, European department of Charente, awarded annually since 1995, to reward a European writer for a book written or translated into French. -
Dan Lungu
Scriitor, conferenţiar la Catedra de Sociologie, Universitatea „Alexandru Ioan Cuza“, Iaşi.
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Studii postdoctorale la Sorbona.
Redactor al revistei „Au Sud de l’Est” (Paris).
În 1996, iniţiază grupul literar Club 8.
Intre 2001 si 2002, redactor-şef al revistei de cultură „Timpul”.
Face parte din grupul de scriitori români invitaţi la Les belles étrangères (Franţa, 2005), alături de Gabriela Adameşteanu, Ştefan Agopian, Ana Blandiana, Mircea Cărtărescu, Gheorghe Craciun, Letiţia Ilea, Ion Mureşan, Marta Petreu, Simona Popescu, Cecilia Ştefănescu şi Vlad Zografi.
I se montează piesele Cu cuţitul la os (Green Hours, Teatrul Luni, 2002), Nuntă la parter (spectacol-lectură la Teatrul Odeon, 2003; spectacol-lectură la Teatrul Luceafărul, Iaşi, 2006 -
Alice Zeniter
Alice Zeniter is a French novelist, translator, scriptwriter, dramatist and director.
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She has won a Prix Renaudot young adult award for her third novel, Juste avant l'Oubli, and a Prix Goncourt young adult for her fourth novel, L'Art de Perdre.
Zeniter published her first novel, Deux moins un égal zéro, at the age of 16. Her second novel, Jusque dans nos bras, was published in 2010 and translated in English as Take This Man.
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Pierre Lemaitre
Pierre Lemaitre is a French novelist and screenwriter. He is internationally renowned for the crime novels featuring the fictional character Commandant Camille Verhœven.
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His first novel that was translated into English, Alex, is a translation of the French book with the same title, it jointly won the CWA International Dagger for best translated crime novel of 2013.
In November 2013, he was awarded the Prix Goncourt, France's top literary prize, for Au revoir là-haut (published in English as The Great Swindle), an epic about World War I. His novels Camille and The Great Swindle won the CWA International Dagger in 2015 and 2016 respectively. -
Nicolas Vanier
Nicolas Vanier is a French adventurer, writer and filmmaker.
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His latest feature film, Loup ("Wolf") was released at the end of 2009 and was presented at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. Loup is about the life of the Evens tribe in North Eastern arctic Siberia, in the Verkhoïansk mountain range, who live by raising large herds of caribou, which involves protecting them from attacks by wolves. -
Agnès Desarthe
Agnès Desarthe est un écrivain et traductrice français. Elle écrit aussibien des livres pour adultes que de livres pour enfants.
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Agnès Desarthe is a French writer and translator. She writes both for adults and for children. -
Philippe Jaenada
Philippe Jaenada est né à Saint-Germain-en-Laye où ses grands parents maternels possèdaient le restaurant Le Grand Cerf.
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Issu d’une famille de pieds-noirs récemment revenue d’Algérie, il a grandi dans une banlieue pavillonnaire de Morsang-sur-Orge dans l’Essonne. Après des études scientifiques, il s’est installé à Paris en 1986 où il enchaîne les petits boulots pendant plusieurs années.
Sa première nouvelle est publiée en 1990 dans L'Autre Journal. Les sept premiers romans de Philippe Jaenada sont d'inspiration autobiographique. Outre ses livres, il écrit des articles pour le magazine Voici -
Nicole Bacharan
Nicole Bacharan est une politologue, spécialiste de la société américaine et des relations franco-américaines, connue pour ses livres et ses interventions à la télévision et à la radio en France et aux États-Unis. Elle est l’auteur de nombreux essais dont Faut-il avoir peur de l’Amérique ? ou Américains-Arabes, l’affrontement. Elle écrit également, en collaboration avec Dominique Simonnet, les romans de la série Némo.
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Diplômée de l'Institut d'études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po), de l'Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne et du Collège d'Europe de Bruges, Nicole Bacharan est chercheuse associée à la Fondation nationale des sciences politiques (Sciences Po) et National Fellow de la Hoover Institution à l’Université Stanford en Californie.
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Sophie Divry
Sophie Divry vit à Lyon. Journaliste engagée au mensuel La Décroissance, elle écrit également des chroniques littéraires pour le Monde Diplomatique. La cote 400 est son premier roman.
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Caroline De Mulder
Caroline de Mulder, née à Gand en 1976, est un écrivain belge de langue française. Elle réside à la fois à Paris et à Namur où elle est chargée de plusieurs cours de littérature aux Facultés Notre- Dame de la Paix.
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Élevée en Néerlandais par ses parents, elle alterne ensuite des études en français et en néerlandais, primaires à Mouscron, secondaire à Courtrai, philologie romane à Namur, puis à Gand et enfin à Paris.
L'auteur qui aime dire avoir deux langues maternelles, a donc appris à écrire en néerlandais et à lire en français.
En 2010 , son premier roman "Ego Tango" (consacré au milieu du tango parisien, milieu qu'elle a elle même fréquenté assidûment), lui vaut d'être sélectionnée avec 4 autres écrivains pour la finale du prix Rossel. Elle -
Einar Már Guðmundsson
Einar Már Guðmundsson received a B.A. in Comparative Literature and History from the University of Iceland in 1979, after which he moved to Copenhagen to do graduate work in Comparative Literature at the University of Copenhagen.
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Einar's first book, the collection of poetry Er nokkur í kórónafötum hér inni? (Is Anyone Here Wearing the Korona Line?), appeared in 1980. In 1985 he received first prize in a literary competition held by Almenna Bókafélagið, Book Publishers and Book Club, for the novel Riddarar Hringstigans (The Knights of the Spiral Staircase). His books have been translated into several languages and the widely acclaimed novel Englar alheimsins (Angels of the Universe) received the Nordic Council's Literary Award in 1995. Friðri -
Caroline Lamarche
Caroline Lamarche werd geboren in Luik, 1955, waar zij haar studie Romaanse filologie voltooide. Zij publiceerde haar eerste werk, een dichtbundel getiteld L'arbre rouge (De rode boom), in 1991. Daarna richtte zij zich voornamelijk op het schrijven van proza. In 1996 verscheen Le jour du chien, gevolgd door onder andere La nuit l'après-midi in 1998 en J'ai cent ans in 1999. Voor De dag van de hond, verschenen in de Franse Bibliotheek, ontving zij de Belgische staatsprijs voor literatuur 'Victor Rossel', ook wel de Belgische Prix Goncourt genoemd.
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Lydie Salvayre
Lydie Salvayre is a French writer. Born in the south of France to Republican refugees from the Spanish Civil War, she went on to study medicine in Toulouse and continues to work as a practicing psychiatrist. She has been awarded both the Prix Hermes and the Prix Novembre for her work.
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Véronique Olmi
Véronique Olmi is a French playwright and novelist. She won the Prix Alain-Fournier emerging artist award for her 2001 novella Bord de Mer. It has since been translated into several European languages. Olmi has published a dozen plays and half a dozen novels.
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Joseph Kessel
Joseph Kessel was a French journalist and novelist. He was born in Villa Clara, Entre Ríos, Argentina, because of the constant journeys of his father, a Lithuanian doctor of Jewish origin. Kessel lived the first years of his childhood in Orenburg, Russia, before the family moved to France. He studied in Nice and Paris, and took part in the First World War as an aviator.
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Kessel wrote several novels and books that were later represented in the cinema, notably Belle de Jour (by Luis Buñuel in 1967). He was also a member of the Académie française from 1962 to 1979. In 1943 he and his nephew Maurice Druon translated Anna Marly's song Chant des Partisans into French from its original Russian. The song became one of the anthems of the Free French F -
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Boris Cyrulnik
Boris Cyrulnik est neuropsychiatre et directeur d'enseignement à l'université de Toulon. Il est l'auteur d'immenses succès, notamment Un Merveilleux malheur, Les Vilains Petits Canards, Parler d'amour au bord du gouffre et De chair et d'âme.
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Heinz Linge
Heinz Linge (23 March 1913 – 9 March 1980) was an SS officer who served as a valet for German Führer Adolf Hitler. Linge was present in the Führerbunker on 30 April 1945, when Hitler committed suicide.
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Zeruya Shalev
Zeruya Shalev is a bestselling Israeli author.
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She has an MA in Bible studies and works as a literary editor at Keshet publishing house. On January 29, 2004, when she was returning to her home in Rehavia, Jerusalem, after taking her child to kindergarten, a Palestinian suicide bomber blew up a city bus as she was passing by. It took her four months to recover from her injuries. Shalev is married to Ayal Megged, son of Aharon Megged.
Shalev has published four novels, a book of poetry and a children's book. Her novels Love Life and Husband and Wife have received critical acclaim both in Israel and abroad. They have been translated into 21 languages and were bestsellers in several countries. Shalev has been awarded the Book Publishers' Associati -
Thomas Gunzig
Licencié en Sciences Politiques, Thomas Gunzig fait de l'indépendance du Tadjikistan le sujet de son mémoire. En 1994 il remporte le Prix de l'Écrivain Étudiant de la ville de Bruxelles pour Situation Instable Penchant vers le mois d'Août (éditions Jacques Grancher), un recueil de nouvelles extraordinaire de maîtrise et de drôlerie qui annonce un talent nouveau entre humour noir, fantaisie réaliste et pessimisme morbide, doué d'une imagination bondissante proche du fantastique.
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En 1996 il remporte le prix de la RTBF et le Prix Spécial du Jury pour la nouvelle Elle mettait les cafards en boîte lors de la Fureur de Lire. En 1997, second recueil de nouvelles, Il y avait quelque chose dans le noir qu'on n'avait pas vu (éditions Julliard, J'ai L -
Fabienne Verdier
Born in Paris.
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Graduated from Ecole des Beaux-arts de Toulouse.
Awarded a post-graduate scholarship at the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, China.
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Pierre Boisserie
Né à Paris en 1964, Pierre Boisserie mettra trente-cinq ans pour arriver à la bande dessinée. Un parcours commencé avec ‘Fripounet et Fripounette', qu'il achète à la sortie de l'église, puis ‘Le Journal de Tintin' de la glorieuse époque Greg, jusqu'au coup de tonnerre de 1977 lorsqu'il découvre, en colonie de vacances, le numéro 92 de ‘Strange', qui traîne sur un lit. Jack Kirby, Gil Kane et Gene Colan laissent entrevoir à ce grand échalas des mondes extraordinaires où peut bouillonner son imaginaire débordant. Sur les conseils avisés de ses excellents parents, c'est pourtant vers la kinésithérapie qu'il s'oriente. Un métier qui occupera quinze années de sa vie, pendant lesquelles il trouve quand même le temps de se marier et de faire des e
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Patrick Prugne
Patrick Prugne commence à dessiner dès son plus jeune âge, et s’entraîne en imitant ses artistes préférés : Pratt, Manara, Juillard, Loisel, Breccia ou Prado. Il entame sa carrière comme illustrateur publicitaire avant de se lancer dans la bande dessinée. Sa première œuvre, un pastiche de la fable de La Fontaine Le Lièvre et la Tortue, reçoit en 1990 l’Alph-Art Avenir au Festival de la bande dessinée d’Angoulême, une récompense qui aura, selon ses propres termes, l’effet d’un déclic. Il sonne alors à la porte des éditeurs et publie en 1991, avec Goupil au scénario, le premier opus de la série humoristique Nelson et Trafalgar chez Vents d’Ouest, qui remporte un succès immédiat. En 1999, il dessine une histoire de Fantasy, Fol, avant de se la
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Valérie Zenatti
Valérie Zenatti was born in Nice on April Fool’s Day 1970. When she was thirteen she went to live with her parents in Israel, where she did her national service, which inspired her memoir, When I was a Soldier. Even now she doesn’t go out without her survival kit — these days of a book, a notepad and a pen. Valérie now lives in Paris, where she works as a translator of Hebrew. She is also writing screenplays based on two of her books, Late for War and Message in a Bottle. Valérie is continually surprised and delighted at seeing Lucas, aged eight, and Nina, nearly two, grow up.
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Marc Dugain
Marc Dugain is a French novelist and filmmaker renowned for his historical and political narratives. His debut novel, La Chambre des officiers (1998), inspired by his grandfather's work with World War I veterans, garnered critical acclaim and won multiple literary awards. Dugain's oeuvre often delves into the lives of prominent figures and events, as seen in works like La Malédiction d'Edgar (2005) and Une exécution ordinaire (2007). Beyond literature, he has directed several films, including adaptations of his own novels, and has contributed to theater and graphic novels. Dugain's storytelling is marked by a deep exploration of power dynamics, historical intricacies, and the human condition.
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Alisa Ganieva
Alisa Ganieva (or Ganiyeva; Russian: Алиса Аркадьевна Ганиева) is a Russian author, writing short prose and essays. In 2009, she was awarded the Debut literary prize for her debut novel Salaam, Dalgat!, published using the pseudonym of Gulla Khirachev.
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Ganieva was born in Moscow in an Avar family but moved with her family to Dagestan, where she lived in Gunib and later attended school in Makhachkala. In 2002 she moved back to Moscow and graduated from the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute. She works as a literary critic for the Nezavisimaya Gazeta daily.
She won the Debut literary prize, the under-25 competition for authors writing in Russian, in 2009 for Salaam, Dalgat!. The identity of the author, who published it pseudonymously, was only di -
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Harold Cobert
Harold Cobert (né à Bordeaux en 1974) est un écrivain français. A la suite d'un accident de surf à l'age de 20 ans, il se met à l'écriture alors qu'il poursuit des études littéraires. Titulaire d'un doctorat ès lettres, il publie aux éditions Séguier une série d'ouvrages consacrée à Mirabeau intitulée Mirabeau, le fantôme du Panthéon.
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En février 2007 sort Le Reniement de Patrick Treboc aux éditions JC Lattès, son premier roman, par lequel il donne un coup de pied dans la fourmilière médiatico-littéraire en racontant l’incroyable destin d’un jeune professeur intègre, criminel par accident, libéré de prison grâce à une émission de télé-réalité délirante qu'il a lui-même inventée. -
Hannelore Cayre
A criminal lawyer, she is also a film director and, above all, a writer.
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Thomas Snégaroff
Professeur agrégé d’histoire, Thomas Snégaroff intervient à Sciences Po Paris et enseigne en classes préparatoires.
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Josiane Balasko
Balasko has a successful career as a writer, actress, comedian and film director enjoying considerable success in all three. She lives and works in France.
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Balasko began her career writing and performing with the caf' theatre troupe Splendid in 1976. In 1990 she was nominated for a César for best actress for Bertrand Blier's Trop Belle Pour Toi (Too Beautiful For You) opposite Gérard Depardieu and again in 1994 was applauded for her role in Tout le monde n'a pas eu la chance d'avoir des parents communistes (1994), movingly playing a working-class mother and communist activist in Paris of the 1950s. In 1996 she won a César for best original screen play for her film comedy Gazon Maudit (French Twist) in which she also starred as the film's lea