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.
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
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Après une licence en lettres à Genève, elle étudie le journalisme à l’École supérieure de journalisme de Lille.
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Terry McMillan
Terry McMillan is an African-American author. Her interest in books comes from working at a library when she was fourteen. She received her BA in journalism in 1986 from the University of California at Berkeley and the MFA Film Program at Columbia University. Her work is characterized by strong female protagonists.
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Pendant toute son adolescence, il participe à de nombreux groupes de rock et joue sur de nombreuses scènes de la région parisienne.
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David Foenkinos
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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.
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Ivana Dimić
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Objavljene knjige priča: Crna zelen (1995), Mahorka, mastilo i muž (1998), Uzimanje vremena (2001), Ima li koga? (2006), Popis imovine (2009).
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Vanessa Springora
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Florian Zeller
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Olivier Bourdeaut
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Durant dix ans il travailla dans l’immobilier allant de fiascos en échecs avec un enthousiasme constant. Puis, pendant deux ans, il devint responsable d’une agence d’experts en plomb, responsable d’une assistante plus diplômée que lui et responsable de chasseurs de termites, mais les insectes achevèrent de ronger sa responsabilité. Il fut aussi ouvreur de robinets dans un hôpital, factotum dans une maison d’édition de livres scolaires – un comble – et cueilleur de fleu -
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Philippe Collin
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Gaël Faye
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Christine Angot
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François-Henri Désérable
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His writing has been featured on bestseller lists, adapted for the cinema, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, selected as winner or finalist of twenty awards, and translated into thirty-five languages.
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She is from a distinguished Belgian political family; she is notably the grand-niece of Charles-Ferdinand Nothomb, a Belgian foreign minister (1980-1981). Her first novel, Hygiène de l'assassin, was published in 1992. Since then, she has published approximately one novel per year with a.o. Les Catilinaires (1995), Stupeur Et Tremblements (1999) and Métaphysique des tubes (2000).
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Philippe Besson
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L'Arrière-saison, published in 2002, won the Grand Prix RTL-Lire 2003. Un garçon d'Italie was nominated for the Goncourt and the Médicis prizes.
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Camille Laurens
Camille Laurens sur les hommes qu'elle décrit dans son livre..
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Elle ne va pas à leur rencontre, du moins pas comme on pourrait croire. Elle ne fond pas sur eux pour les capter, les saisir, leur parler. Elle les regarde. Elle se replit de leur iamge comme un lac du reflet d'un ciel. Elle les maintient d'abord dans cette distance qui permet de les réfléchir. Les hommes restent donc là longtemps, en face d'elle. Elle les regarde, elle les observe, elle les contemple. Elle les voit toujours comme ces voyageurs assis vis-à-vis d'elle dans les trains maintenant rares où cette disposition existe encore : non pas à côté d'elle, dans le même sens, mais en face, de l'autre côté de la tablette où gît le livre qu'elle écrit. Ils se tiennent là. C'est le -
Nathacha Appanah
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Pierre Lemaitre
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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.
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Kamel Daoud
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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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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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Panayotis Pascot
Panayotis Pascot est comédien, humoriste et écrivain.
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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.
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Maylis de Kerangal
Maylis de Kerangal est une femme de lettres française, née le 16 juin 1967 à Toulon. Elle passe son enfance au Havre, fille et petite-fille de capitaine au long cours. Elle étudie en classe préparatoire au lycée Jeanne-d'Arc de Rouen et ensuite à Paris de 1985 à 1990 l'histoire, la philosophie et l'ethnologie. Elle commence à travailler chez Gallimard jeunesse une première fois de 1991 à 1996, avant de faire deux séjours aux États-Unis, à Golden dans le Colorado en 1997. Elle reprend sa formation en passant une année à l'EHESS à Paris en 1998.
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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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Anne Berest
Anne Berest is the bestselling co-author of How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are (Doubleday, 2014) and the author of a novel based on the life of French writer Françoise Sagan. With her sister Claire, she is also the author of Gabriële, a critically acclaimed biography of her great-grandmother, Gabriële Buffet-Picabia, Marcel Duchamp’s lover and muse. She is the great-granddaughter of the painter Francis Picabia. For her work as a writer and prize-winning showrunner, she has been profiled in publications such as French Vogue and Haaretz newspaper. The recipient of numerous literary awards, The Postcard was a finalist for the Goncourt Prize and has been a long-selling bestseller in France.
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Jean-Baptiste Del Amo
Jean-Baptiste Del Amo, né le 25 novembre 1981 à Toulouse, est un écrivain français.
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En 2006, il reçoit le Prix du jeune écrivain de langue française pour sa nouvelle Ne rien faire, écrite à partir de son expérience de quelques mois au sein d'une association de lutte contre le VIH en Afrique. Ce texte court, qui se déroule en Afrique le jour de la mort d'un nourrisson, est une fiction autour du silence, du non-dit et de l’apparente inaction.
Fin août 2008, son premier roman, Une éducation libertine, paraît dans la collection blanche des éditions Gallimard. Il est favorablement accueilli par la critique1 et reçoit le Prix Laurent-Bonelli Virgin-Lire, fin septembre 2008.
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Philippe Delerm
Philippe Delerm est né le 27 novembre 1950 à Auvers-sur-Oise. Ses parents étant instituteurs, il passe son enfance dans des «maisons d’école» : à Auvers, Louveciennes, Saint-Germain. Études de Lettres à la faculté de Nanterre, puis nommé professeur de lettres en Normandie. Il vit donc depuis 1975 à Beaumont-le-Roger (Eure), avec Martine, sa femme, également professeur de lettres et illustrateur-auteur d’albums pour enfants.
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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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Cécile Coulon
Cécile Coulon est née en 1990. Après des études en hypokhâgne et khâgne à Clermont-Ferrand, elle entre à l’Université en Lettres Modernes.
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Son premier roman Le voleur de vie et son recueil de nouvelles Sauvages ont paru aux Éditions Revoir.
Outre son goût prononcé pour la littérature, de Steinbeck à Maupin en passant par Tennesse Williams et Prévert, elle est aussi passionnée de cinéma (Pasolini, La nuit du chasseur, The Big Lebowski, L’année dernière à Marienbad, etc..) et de musique (Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry, Ramones). -
Mick Kitson
Mick Kitson was born in South Wales and grew up in London. He studied English at the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne before a brief spell as one half of 80s pop duo The Senators. He went on to work as a newspaper reporter before switching career again at the age of 40 to become an English Teacher.
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He lives in Fife, Scotland with his wife Jill and bad tempered dog Lucy. He has three grown up children: Molly, Susie and Jimmy and spends more time than is good for a person fly fishing for sea trout, reading, playing the banjo and growing
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Emily Itami
Emily Itami is the author of Fault Lines. She grew up in Tokyo before moving to London, where she now lives with her young family. She has been widely published as a freelance journalist and travel writer.
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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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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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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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Johann Chapoutot
Johann Chapoutot est professeur d'histoire contemporaine à l'université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3. Spécialiste de l'histoire de la culture nazie et d'histoire politique et culturelle contemporaine, il est notamment l'auteur de La Loi du sang. Penser et agir en nazi (Bibliothèque des Histoires, 2014) et de La révolution culturelle nazie (Bibliothèque des Histoires, 2017).
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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 -
Neville Thompson
Neville Thompson is the author of five novels and the editor of two collections of short stories written by Irish prisoners, collected when he was a part-time prison teacher at Midlands Prison and Portlaoise Prison.
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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. -
Sylvia Brinton Perera
Sylvia Brinton Perera, M.A., is a Jungian analyst who lives, practices, teaches, and writes in New York and Vermont and lectures worldwide. Originally trained as an art historian, she earned her M.A. in psychology and graduated from the Jung Institute of New York. Her publications include Descent to the Goddess; The Scapegoat Complex; Dreams, A Portal to the Source (with E. Christopher Whitmont); Celtic Queen Maeve and Addiction and The Irish Bull God: Image of the Multiform and Integral Masculine.
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Camille Laurens
Camille Laurens sur les hommes qu'elle décrit dans son livre..
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Elle ne va pas à leur rencontre, du moins pas comme on pourrait croire. Elle ne fond pas sur eux pour les capter, les saisir, leur parler. Elle les regarde. Elle se replit de leur iamge comme un lac du reflet d'un ciel. Elle les maintient d'abord dans cette distance qui permet de les réfléchir. Les hommes restent donc là longtemps, en face d'elle. Elle les regarde, elle les observe, elle les contemple. Elle les voit toujours comme ces voyageurs assis vis-à-vis d'elle dans les trains maintenant rares où cette disposition existe encore : non pas à côté d'elle, dans le même sens, mais en face, de l'autre côté de la tablette où gît le livre qu'elle écrit. Ils se tiennent là. C'est le -
Annick Cojean
Annick Cojean, foreign correspondent for Le Monde, is one of France's most widely admired journalists. She chairs the committee for the Prix Albert Londres, having won the prize herself in 1996, and has published a number of books.
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Chloë Ashby
Chloë Ashby is an author and arts critic who has written for publications such as the Times, TLS, Guardian, FT Life & Arts, Spectator and frieze.
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Her first novel, Wet Paint, was published in April 2022, and her second novel, Second Self, followed in July 2023.
She is also the author of Look At This If You Love Great Art (2021) and Colours of Art: The Story of Art in 80 Palettes (2022). -
Denis Mukwege
Dr Denis Mukwege is a world-renowned gynaecologist and human rights activist from east DRC. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2019 for his global efforts to end the use of rape as a weapon of war. Dr Mukwege founded Panzi Hospital and Foundation, and has become one of the world’s leading specialists on treating survivors of wartime sexual violence.
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Jean-Philippe Toussaint
Jean-Philippe Toussaint (born 29 November, 1957, Brussels) is a Belgian prose writer and filmmaker. His books have been translated into more than twenty languages and he has had his photographs displayed in Brussels and Japan. Toussaint won the Prix Médicis in 2005 for his novel Fuir. The 2006 book La mélancolie de Zidane (Paris: Minuit, 2006) is a lyrical essay on the headbutt administered by the French football player Zinedine Zidane to the Italian player Marco Materazzi during the 2006 World Cup final in Berlin. An English translation was published in 2007 in the British journal New Formations. His 2009 novel La Vérité sur Marie won the prestigious Prix Décembre.
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Érik Orsenna
Érik Orsenna, pseudonyme d'Erik Arnoult est un romancier français. Après des études de philosophie et de sciences politiques, il a fait des études en Angleterre (London School of Economics). Son pseudonyme Orsenna est le nom de la vieille ville du Rivage des Syrtes, de Julien Gracq.
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Érik Orsenna, nom de plume of Erik Arnoult is a French novelist. After studying philosophy and political science, he studied economics at the London School of Economics. His pseudonym Orsenna is the name of the old town of The Opposing Shore by Julien Gracq. -
Ellen Urbani
Ellen Urbani is the author of Landfall (2015, Forest Avenue Press), a work of contemporary historical fiction, and the memoir When I Was Elena (2006, The Permanent Press; a BookSense Notable selection). She has a BA from the University of Alabama and an MA from Marylhurst University. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times and numerous anthologies, and has been widely excerpted. She’s reviewed books for The Oregonian, served as a federal disaster/trauma specialist, and lectures nationally on this topic. Her work has been profiled in the Oscar-qualified documentary film Paint Me A Future. A Southern expat, her pets will always be dawgs and her truest allegiance will always reside with the Crimson Tide.
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Carole Martinez
Ancienne comédienne, Carole Martinez se recycle dans l'enseignement et devient professeur de français dans un collège d'Issy-les-Moulineaux. Elle profite d'un congé parental en 2005 pour se lancer dans l'écriture. Elle désire écrire 'quelque chose qui soit entre le conte et le roman.' Puisant dans les légendes de sa tradition familiale espagnole, elle brode 'Le coeur cousu' à partir des histoires que sa grand-mère lui racontait. Ce premier roman est un succès et Carole Martinez reçoit le prix Renaudot des lycéens en 2007, le prix Ouest-France Étonnants Voyageurs 2007 (jury de jeunes lecteurs), Prix Ulysse de la première oeuvre 2007. Au début de l'année 2011, elle publie un roman policier pour la jeunesse, 'L' Oeil du témoin', après un premi
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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 -
Emmanuelle Lambert
Emmanuelle Lambert est écrivaine et commissaire d’exposition indépendante. Elle a conçu la grande exposition rétrospective Giono qui ouvrira fin octobre 2019 au Mucem de Marseille, en prélude aux commémorations du cinquantenaire de la mort de Giono. Auteure de deux essais littéraires (Mon grand écrivain et Apparitions de Jean Genet, les Impressions nouvelles), elle a publié son troisième roman, La Désertion, chez Stock en 2018.
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Jérôme Ferrari
Jérôme Ferrari is a French writer and translator born in 1968 in Paris. He won the 2012 Prix Goncourt for his novel Le Sermon sur la chute de Rome ("The Sermon on the Fall of Rome").
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Ferrari has lived in Corsica and taught philosophy at the lycée international Alexandre-Dumas in Algiers for several years, then at the Lycée Fesch of Ajaccio.
Currently, he is professor of philosophy at the French School of Abu Dhabi.
One work has been translated into English, Where I Left My Soul (2012), it "is set in the mid-1950s during the Algerian war, looking backwards to the second world war and the French defeat in Indochina, and forwards to the collapse in 1958 of the Fourth Republic. -
Albert Cohen
Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.
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Born Abraham Albert Cohen in Corfu, Greece, in 1895, as part of an important Sephardic Jewish community on the island. Albert’s parents, who owned a soap factory, moved to Marseille, France when he was a child. Albert Cohen discusses this period in his novel Le livre de ma mère (The Book of my Mother). He studied at a private Catholic school. In 1904, he started high school at Lycée Thiers, and graduated in 1913.
In 1914, he left Marseille for Geneva, Switzerland and enrolled in Law school. He graduated from Law School in 1917 and enrolled in Literature School in 1917 until 1919. In 1919, He became a Swiss citizen. That same year he married Elisabeth Broch -
Martin Winckler
Martin Winckler, pseudonyme de Marc Zaffran, est un médecin militant féministe français connu comme romancier et essayiste. Évoquant souvent la situation du système médical français, il est également critique de séries télévisées et traducteur. Il est aujourd'hui citoyen canadien et vit à Montréal (Canada).
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Martin Winckler (born Marc Zaffran) is a French M.D. and short story, novel and essay writer. His main topics are the French medical system, the relationships between caregivers and patients and Women's Health. One of the first TV series critics in France, he has written numerous articles and books on the subject (ER; Grey's Anatomy; House, MD; Law & Order). -
Cynthia Fleury
Cynthia Fleury (civilement Fleury-Perkins), née en 1974 à Paris, est une philosophe et une psychanalyste française. Elle est professeur titulaire de la chaire Humanités et Santé au Conservatoire national des arts et métiers et professeur associé à l'École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris (Mines-ParisTech), dirige également la chaire de philosophie à l'hôpital Sainte-Anne du GHU Paris psychiatrie et neurosciences et est membre du conseil d'administration de l'ONG Santé Diabète.
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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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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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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. -
Lilia Hassaine
Lilia Hassaine est une romancière, journaliste française et chroniqueuse de télévision. Elle reçoit le prix Renaudot des lycéens pour son troisième roman, Panorama.
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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 -
Meredith Hall
Meredith Hall’s awards include a two-year literary grant from A Room of Her Own Foundation, a Pushcart Prize and Maine’s Book of the Year award. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Kenyon Review, Good Housekeeping, Five Points and many other journals and anthologies. Her debut novel, Beneficence, was published by David. R. Godine Publishing in 2020. Hall is Professor Emerita in the MFA writing program at the University of New Hampshire, and divides her time between Maine and California.
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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 -
Robert Linhart
Politician, sociologist and philosopher.
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Former student of the Lycée Louis-le-Grand and the École normale supérieure (promotion 1963 Letters), doctor of state in sociology, he was a lecturer in the philosophy department of the University of Paris VIII. -
Valentine Goby
Valentine Goby est née en 1974. En sortant de Sciences Po, elle fait un séjour de 3 ans en Asie (Hanoi et Manille). À son retour en France, en 2002, elle publie aux éditions Gallimard son premier roman, La Note sensible.
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Françoise Chandernagor
Françoise Chandernagore is a recognized French writer, member of the Académie Goncourt since 1995. After graduating from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris and obtaining a master of public law she entered at the age of twenty-one years at the prestigeous École Nationale d'administration (ENA), from which she graduated two years later as a first of her year. She was the first woman to receive this rank. As a former student of the École Nationale d'Administration, she became a member of the State Council (Conseil d'Etat)in 1969.
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Since 1981, when she published "L'Allée du Roi" which has earned international recognition immediately (imaginary memoirs of Madame de Maintenon, the second wife of Louis XIV), Françoise Chandernagore wrote nine -
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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Kaouther Adimi
Kaouther Adimi, (born 1986 Algiers) is a writer, graduate in modern literature and human resources management. She works today in Paris, where she has lived since 2009.
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Kaouther Adimi was born in Alger, Algeria, in 1986. From the age of 4 to the age of 8, she lived with her family in Grenoble, France. It's during this period that she discovered the pleasure of reading, by going to the public library every week with her dad
In 1994, she returned to Algeria, which was then under the influence of terrorism. Having very few opportunities to read, she started to write her own stories.
While she was studying in the Alger university, she entered a writing contest organized by the French Institute, for the young writers in Muret (Haute-Garonne). The -
Sharon Dodua Otoo
Sharon Dodua Otoo is a British writer, publicist and activist. In 2016 she was awarded the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize for her first short story in the German language. Otoo’s writing encompasses magical realism, Afrofuturism, identity issues, relationships and empowerment.
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Laurent Mauvignier
Laurent Mauvignier was born in Tours (France) in 1967. He graduated from the Beaux-Art (plastic arts) in 1991.
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He has published several novels with the Editions de Minuit and his books have been translated in several countries, among them In the Crowd by Faber and Faber (2008). His novels try to map out reality while confronting what cannot be voiced and the limits of what can be said.
His words attempt to articulate absence and sorrow, love and lack; their endeavour is to hold back what sifts through the fingers and through the years.
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Sorj Chalandon
Sorj Chalandon est un journaliste et écrivain français.
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Juliette Adam
Juliette Adam also known by her maiden name Juliette Lambert, was a French author and feminist.Her father is described in Paradoxes d'un docteur allemand (published 1860), which shows him to have been sympathetic to feminism.
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In 1852, she married a doctor named La Messine, and published in 1858 her Idées antiproudhoniennes sur l'amour, la femme et le mariage, in defense of Daniel Stern (pen name of Marie d'Agoult) and George Sand.
After her first husband's death in 1867, she married Antoine Edmond Adam (1816–1877), prefect of police in 1870, who subsequently became life-senator. She established a salon which was frequented by Gambetta and the other republican leaders against the conservative reaction of the 1870s.
Adam wrote the notes on forei -
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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François Bégaudeau
He was born in Luçon, Vendée and was first a member of the 1990s punk rock group Zabriskie Pont. After receiving his degree in Literature, he taught high school in Dreux and in an inner city middle school in Paris. He published his first novel, Jouer juste in 2003. In 2005, he published Dans la diagonale and Un démocrate, Mick Jagger 1960-1969, a fictionalized account of the life of Mick Jagger.
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In 2006, his third novel entitled Entre les murs earned him the Prix France Culture/Télérama.
François Bégaudeau is a movie critic for the French version of Playboy, having previously worked for the Cahiers du cinéma. He also was a regular contributor for several French magazines, including Inculte, Transfuge and So Foot. Since September 2006, he is a -
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Nancy Huston
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Huston lived in Calgary until age fifteen, at which time her family moved to Wilton, New Hampshire, USA. She studied at Sarah Lawrence College in New York, where she was given the opportunity to spend a year of her studies in Paris. Arriving in Paris in 1973, Huston obtained a Master's Degree from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, writing a thesis on swear words under the supervision of Roland Barthes.
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Née à Calgary (Canada), Nancy Huston, qui vit à Paris, a publié de nombreux romans et essais chez Actes Sud et chez Leméac, parmi lesquels Instruments des ténèbres (1996, prix Goncourt des lycéens et prix du livre Inter), L'empreinte de l'ange (1998, grand prix des lectrices de ElleJ et Lignes de fail -
Thibault Lambert
Thibaut Lambert, né le 11 décembre 1987 à Dinant (province de Namur), est un auteur de bande dessinée et illustrateur belge francophone.
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Biographie
Thibaut Lambert naît le 11 décembre 1987[1],[2] à Dinant[3].
Il fait ses études secondaires en technique de qualification arts plastiques à l'institut Saint-Roch de Marche-en-Famenne, il poursuit dans cette voie à l’Institut Saint-Luc de Bruxelles d'où il sort diplômé bachelier en arts visuels puis il poursuit sa formation artistique en peinture à l'académie des beaux-arts de Saint-Gilles pendant trois ans en cours du soir[4].
Il est animateur de stage de bande dessinée pour la bibliothèque communale de Bertrix en 2007 et il anime les plaines de jeux communales de Neuvillers en 2008[4].
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Violaine Huisman
Violaine Huisman was born in Paris in 1979 and has lived and worked in New York for twenty years, where she ran the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s literary series and also organized multidisciplinary arts festivals across the city. Originally published by Gallimard under the title Fugitive parce que reine, her debut novel The Book of Mother was awarded multiple literary prizes including the Prix Françoise Sagan and the Prix Marie Claire.
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Nicolas Werth
Nicolas Werth (born 1950) is a French historian, and an internationally known expert on communist studies, particularly the history of the Soviet Union. He is the son of Alexander Werth, a Russian-born British journalist and writer.
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He wrote the chapters dedicated to the USSR in The Black Book of Communism. Werth is a research director at the Institut d'histoire du temps présent, affiliate to CNRS. Since the 2000s, all his books are financed by the Hoover Institution. In 2007, he was the historic consultant for the French television documentary film, Staline: le tyran rouge, broadcast on M6.
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Claire Berest
Claire Berest, née le 14 juillet 1982 à Paris, est une écrivaine française.
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Diplômée d'un Institut universitaire de formation des maîtres (IUFM), elle enseigne quelque temps en ZEP avant de démissionner. Claire Berest a publié son premier roman, Mikado, en janvier 2011 aux éditions Léo Scheer. Son deuxième roman, L' Orchestre vide, s'inspire de l'histoire d'amour vécue avec le chanteur canadien Buck 65.
Son compagnon est l'écrivain Abel Quentin.
Avec sa sœur Anne Berest, elle co-écrit en 2017, Gabriële, en hommage à leur arrière grand-mère Gabrièle Buffet-Picabia.
Son dernier roman, Rien n'est noir, met en scène Frida Kahlo et Diego Rivera. -
Iain Levison
Iain Levison was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, in 1963. Since moving to the United States, he has worked as a fisherman, carpenter, and cook, and he has detailed his woes of wage slavery in A Working Stiff’s Manifesto.
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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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