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  Serge Joncour

  Serge Joncour est un auteur français. Originaire d’une famille de paysans, il a grandi à Paris. Il a passé son enfance entre la Nièvre, l'Eure-et-Loir et le Valais suisse. Pendant des années, tout en menant parallèlement toutes sortes d’activités (dont maître-nageur et publicitaire), il écrit : de la poésie, des nouvelles, des romans… Finalement, son premier roman, "Vu", est publié aux éditions du Dilettante en 1998. Il a alors 37 ans. Depuis il a publié plus d’une quinzaine de livres, dont "U.V." (2003) qui a obtenu le prix France-Télévision, "L’Idole" (2004) récompensé par le Prix de l’Humour noir, "L'écrivain national" (2014) Prix des Deux Magots 2015, "Repose-toi sur moi" (2016) Prix Interallié et élu Meilleur roman français 2016 du Mag

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  Aldo Leopold

  A Sand County Almanac , published posthumously in 1949, of American writer and naturalist Aldo Leopold celebrates the beauty of the world and advocates the conscious protection of wild places.
  
  His effect on resource management and policy lasted in the early to mid-twentieth century, and since his death, his influence continued to expand. Through his observation, experience, and reflection at his river farm in Wisconsin, he honed the concepts of land health and a land ethic that since his death ever influenced in the years. Despite more than five hundred articles and three books during the course of his geographically widespread career, time at his shack and farm in Wisconsin inspired most of the disarmingly simple essays that so many per

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  Sarah Vaughan

  Sarah Vaughan read English at Oxford and went on to be a journalist. After training with the Press Association, she worked for The Guardian for 11 years as a news reporter, health correspondent and political correspondent before leaving to freelance and write fiction. Her 3rd novel, Anatomy of a Scandal, was an instant international bestseller, a Sunday Times top five bestseller, a kindle number 1 bestseller, a Richard & Judy pick, and was longlisted for the Theakson's Old Peculier Crime Novel and shortlisted for awards in France, Sweden and the UK. It has been translated into 22 languages and is being adapted for TV. Her 4th novel, Little Disasters, will be published in France, Spain, Portugal, Sweden, the UK on April 2 and the US on Augus

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  Sylvie le Bihan

  Sylvie Le Bihan Gagnaire est directrice de l'international pour les projets des restaurants Pierre Gagnaire. En 2013, elle a publié Petite Bibliothèque du gourmand, aux Éditions Flammarion. Son premier roman, L'Autre, est paru aux Éditions du Seuil en 2014 et a rencontré une jolie presse.

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  Yasmina Khadra

  Yasmina Khadra (Arabic: ياسمينة خضراء‎, literally "green jasmine") is the pen name of the Algerian author Mohammed Moulessehoul.
  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."
  His novel The Swallows of Kabul, set in Afghanistan under the Taliban, was shortlisted for the 2006 International

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  Pete Fromm

  Pete Fromm is a five time winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Literary Award for his novels IF NOT FOR THIS, AS COOL AS I AM and HOW ALL THIS STARTED, a story collection, DRY RAIN, and the memoir, INDIAN CREEK CHRONICLES. The film of AS COOL AS I AM, starring Claire Danes, James Marsden, and Sarah Bolger was released in 2013. He is the author of four other short story collections and has published over two hundred stories in magazines. He is on the faculty of Oregon’s Pacific University’s Low-Residency MFA Program, and lives in Montana with his family.
  
  http://www.petefromm.com

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  Alysia Abbott

  Alysia Abbott's debut book, Fairyland, A Memoir of My Father (W.W. Norton) was a New York Times Editor's Choice, and an O, The Oprah Magazine pick for summer 2013. Her work has appeared in Vogue, Real Simple, Slate, Salon, TheAtlantic.com, and Psychology Today, among other publications.
  
  Alysia grew up in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury, the only child of gay poet and writer, Steve Abbott. After he died, she relocated to New York City, where she worked at the New York Public Library and received an MFA in Creative Non-Fiction from New School University.
  
  In 2009 she moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she lives today with her husband and two children.
  
  
  

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  Khashayar J. Khabushani

  Khashayar J. Khabushani was born in Van Nuys, California, in 1992. During his childhood he spent time in Iran before returning to Los Angeles. He studied philosophy at California State University, Northridge, and prior to completing his MFA at Columbia University, he worked as a middle school teacher. I WILL GREET THE SUN AGAIN is his first novel.

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  Kathrine Kressmann Taylor

  Born Kathrine Kressmann, she married Elliott Taylor in 1928. Her first and most famous book, "Address unknown", was initially published by Story magazine. As both the editor and her husband deemed the story "too strong to appear under the name of a woman", she took on the pseudonym Kressman Taylor, which she used for the rest of her professional life.

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  Christine Angot

  French novelist and playwright, she is perhaps best known for her 1999 novel L'Inceste (Incest) which recounts an incestuous relationship with her father. It is a subject which appears in several of her previous books, but it is unclear whether these works are autofiction and the events described true. Angot herself describes her work - a metafiction on society's fundamental prohibition of incest and her own writings on the subject - as a performative (cf Quitter la ville).
  
  Angot is also literary director for French publishers Stock
  
  

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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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  E.J. Levy

  EJ Levy’s debut novel, THE CAPE DOCTOR (Little Brown), was named a NEW YORK TIMES Editors’ Choice book, one of Barnes & Noble’s Best Books of Summer, and won a 2022 Colorado Book Award. A French edition was published by L'Olivier in 2023 and won the 2024 Prix Libr'a Nous for Foreign Fiction. Her story collection, LOVE, IN THEORY, won a Flannery O’Connor Award and GLCA New Writers Award for Fiction; KIRKUS named it a Best Indie Book of the Year. Levy’s anthology, TASTING LIFE TWICE: Literary Lesbian Fiction by New American Writers, won a Lambda Literary Award. Her work has appeared in THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE PARIS REVIEW, KENYON REVIEW, THE WASHINGTON POST, BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS, ORION, and THE NATION, and has been twice named among Distingui

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  Gaëlle Josse

  Passionnée de poésie, elle a publié plusieurs recueils et a même reçu le Prix de l'édition poétique de la ville de Dijon en 2009.
  En 2011, Gaëlle publie son 1er roman, « Les heures silencieuses » inspiré d'un tableau du peintre flamand Emmanuelle de Witte. Dans un texte court, empreint de poésie et de mélancolie, l'auteur invente un destin au personnage féminin du tableau. Plébiscité par les libraires, ce titre fait partie des finalistes du Prix Orange du Livre 2011.
  Gaëlle Josse a suivi des études de psychologie, de journalisme et de droit. Après quelques années passées en Nouvelle Calédonie, elle revient en métropole, s'installe à Paris et devient rédactrice en presse magazine mais aussi pour un site Internet.

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  Timothée de Fombelle

  As a child...
  Timothee de Fombelle was born in the heart of Paris in 1973, but often accompanied his architect father on his travels to Africa. Each summer his family left for the countryside (the west of France), where the five brothers and sisters lived like wild horses, making huts in the trees, playing in the river and losing themselves in the woods. In the evening they performed plays for their parents and devoured the books in the library. Childhood remains for him the lost paradise which he re-discovers through writing.
  
  As an adult...
  After becoming a literature teacher, Timothee taught in Paris and Vietnam before choosing the bohemian life of the theatre. Author of a dozen plays, he writes, designs, builds sets and directs the actre

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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.
  
  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.

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  Nathacha Appanah

  See also: Nathacha Appanah-Mouriquand
  
  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.
  
  In 2007, she released her fourth book " Le Dernier Frère " Ed

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  Laurent Galandon

  Né le 16 mars 1970 à Issy-les-Moulineaux, Laurent Galandon grandit dans la banlieue parisienne. A l’adolescence, il s’enferme dans des greniers et joue des nuits entières de longues aventures où il combat Trolls et autres créatures Cthulhiennes. Ses premières histoires, il les écrit donc pour ses camarades de Jeux de Rôle. Adultes, il rejoint Paris pour se consacrer à son autre passion : la photographie. En 1996, il quitte la capitale et prend la direction d’un cinéma d’Art et Essai à Trappes (ville d'un célèbre comique !). Là, il rencontre des comédiens, des réalisateurs et des scénaristes qui raniment son goût pour raconter des histoires.
  
  
  Il ne serait pas indu de dire de Laurent Galandon qu'il est le scénariste des opprimés. En quelques a

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  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.
  
  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
  Strawberries. He also builds boats.

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  Léonor de Récondo

  Léonor de Récondo, née en 1976, débute le violon à l’âge de cinq ans. Son talent précoce est rapidement remarqué, et France Télévisions lui consacre une émission alors qu’elle est adolescente. À l’âge de dix-huit ans, elle obtient du gouvernement français la bourse Lavoisier qui lui permet de partir étudier au New England Conservatory of Music (Boston/U.S.A.). Elle devient, pendant ses études, le violon solo du N.E.C. Symphony Orchestra de Boston. Trois ans plus tard, elle reçoit l’Undergraduate Diploma et rentre en France. Elle fonde alors le quatuor à cordes Arezzo et, grâce au soutien de l’association ProQuartet, se perfectionne auprès des plus grands maîtres du genre (Quatuor Amadeus, Quatuor Alban Berg). Sa curiosité la pousse ensuite

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  Léonora Miano

  Née à Douala au Cameroun, Léonora Miano vit en France depuis 1991 où elle a fait des études en lettres.
  Elle a gagné plusieurs prix littéraires :
  
  - Prix Louis-Guilloux 2006
  - Prix du Premier Roman de Femme 2006 pour L'Intérieur de la nuit
  - Prix René-Fallet 2006
  - Prix Bernard-Palissy 2006
  
  
  Born in Douala (Cameroon), Leonora Miano lives in France since 1991 where she studied literature.
  She has won several literary awards:
  
  - Prix Louis-Guilloux 2006
  - Prix du Premier Roman de Femme 2006 pour L'Intérieur de la nuit
  - Prix René-Fallet 2006
  - Prix Bernard-Palissy 2006

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  Sharma Shields

  Sharma Shields is the author of a short story collection, Favorite Monster, and two novels, The Sasquatch Hunter’s Almanac and The Cassandra. Sharma’s short stories and essays have appeared in The New York Times, Electric Lit, Catapult, Slice, Slate, Fairy Tale Review, Kenyon Review, Iowa Review, Fugue, and elsewhere and have garnered such prizes as the 2020 PNBA Award, 2016 Washington State Book Award, the Autumn House Fiction Prize, the Tim McGinnis Award for Humor, a Grant for Artist Projects from Artist Trust, and the A.B. Guthrie Award for Outstanding Prose. She received her B.A. in English Literature from the University of Washington (2000) and her MFA from the University of Montana (2004). Sharma runs a small press, Scablands Books,

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  Peter Flamm

  Peter Flamm, bürgerlich Erich Mosse, 1891 in Berlin geboren, begann schon während seines Medizinstudiums, in den Zeitungen seines Onkels Rudolf Mosse Feuilletons und kleinere Erzählungen zu veröffentlichen. 1926 sorgte sein psychologischer Debütroman »Ich?« bei S. Fischer für Furore. In den folgenden Jahren verfasste er neben seiner medizinischen Praxis drei weitere Romane, bis er als Jude 1933 mit seiner Frau Marianne aus Deutschland nach Paris und 1934 nach New York emigrieren musste. Dort ließ er sich als Psychiater nieder; sein berühmtester Patient war der Literaturnobelpreisträger William Faulkner, Berühmtheiten wie Albert Einstein und Charlie Chaplin gingen in seinem Haus ein und aus. 1963 starb er in New York.

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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.
  
  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.
  
  A graduate of the Institut d'études politi

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  Romain Gary

  Romain Gary was a Jewish-French novelist, film director, World War II aviator and diplomat. He also wrote under the pen name Émile Ajar .
  
  Born Roman Kacew (Yiddish: קצב, Russian: Кацев), Romain Gary grew up in Vilnius to a family of Lithuanian Jews. He changed his name to Romain Gary when he escaped occupied France to fight with Great Britain against Germany in WWII. His father, Arieh-Leib Kacew, abandoned his family in 1925 and remarried. From this time Gary was raised by his mother, Nina Owczinski. When he was fourteen, he and his mother moved to Nice, France. In his books and interviews, he presented many different versions of his father's origin, parents, occupation and childhood.
  
  He later studied law, first in Aix-en-Provence and then

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  Violette Leduc

  Violette Leduc was born in Arras, Pas de Calais, France, the illegitimate daughter of a servant girl, Berthe. In Valenciennes, the young Violette spent most of her childhood suffering from an ugly self-image and from her mother's hostility and overprotectiveness.
  
  Her formal education, begun in 1913, was interrupted by World War I. After the war, she went to a boarding school, the Collège de Douai, where she experienced lesbian affairs with a classmate and a music instructor who was fired over the incident.
  
  In 1926, Leduc moved to Paris and enrolled in the Lycée Racine. That same year, she failed her baccalaureate exam and began working as a telephone operator and secretary at Plon publishers.
  
  In 1932 she met Maurice Sachs and Simone de Beauvoi

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  Roger Frison-Roche

  Born in 1906 in Paris, Roger Frison-Roche, an alpinist, mountain guide, journalist, and explorer before he turned novelist, produced fiction that celebrated the splendors and rigors of the Alps, the Sahara, and the Scandinavian North. Two of his Alpine novels, Premier de cordée, translated into English as First on the Rope, and La Grande Crevasse, present adventure stories whose mountain-guide protagonists titillate readers with the appealing skill and daring exacted by the mountain.
  
  Source : Literature of Nature: An International Sourcebook by Patrick D. Murphy, Terry Gifford, Katsunori Yamazato (p. 203)

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  Anthony Passeron

  Anthony Passeron was born in Nice in 1983. He teaches French literature and Humanities in a secondary school. LES ENFANTS ENDORMIS (SLEEPING CHILDREN) is his first novel and is going to be published in 16 languages. He is already working on his second novel.

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  Jakuta Alikavazovic

  Jakuta Alikavazovic est née en 1979 à Paris. Lauréate de la Bourse « écrivain » de la Fondation Lagardère en 2007 et du prix Goncourt du premier roman en 2008, elle a publié aux éditions de l’Olivier Histoires contre nature (2006), Corps volatils (2007, Points 2010) et Le Londres-Louxor (2010, Points 2012).
  

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  Andrée Chedid

  Andrée Chedid was a French poet and novelist of Christian Lebanese descent.
  
  When she was ten, she was sent to a boarding school, where she learned English and French. At fourteen, she left for Europe. She then returned to Cairo to go to an American university. Her dream was to become a dancer. She got married to a physician when she was twenty-two, with whom she has two children: Louis Chedid, now a famous French singer, and Michèle. Her work questions human condition and what links the individual to the world. Her writing seeks to evoke the Orient, but she focuses more in denouncing the civil war that destroys Lebanon. She has lived in France since 1946. Because of this diverse background, her work is truly multicultural. Her first book was

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  Amin Maalouf

  Amin Maalouf (Arabic: أمين معلوف; alternate spelling Amin Maluf) is a Lebanese journalist and novelist. He writes and publishes primarily in French.
  
  Most of Maalouf's books have a historical setting, and like Umberto Eco, Orhan Pamuk, and Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Maalouf mixes fascinating historical facts with fantasy and philosophical ideas. In an interview Maalouf has said that his role as a writer is to create "positive myths". Maalouf's works, written with the skill of a master storyteller, offer a sensitive view of the values and attitudes of different cultures in the Middle East, Africa and Mediterranean world.

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  Jim Harrison

  Jim Harrison was born in Grayling, Michigan, to Winfield Sprague Harrison, a county agricultural agent, and Norma Olivia (Wahlgren) Harrison, both avid readers. He married Linda King in 1959 with whom he has two daughters.
  
  Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more information.
  
  His awards include National Academy of Arts grants (1967, 68, 69), a Guggenheim Fellowship (1969-70), the Spirit of the West Award from the Mountain & Plains Booksellers Association, and election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2007).
  
  Much of Harrison's writing depicts sparsely populated regions of North America with many stories set in places such as Nebraska's Sand Hills, Michigan's

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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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  Lola Lafon

  Lola Lafon, née en 1973, est une chanteuse, femme de lettres et compositrice française.
  
  D’origine franco-russo-polonaise, élevée à Sofia, Bucarest et Paris, Lola Lafon s’est d’abord consacrée à la danse avant de se tourner vers l’écriture.
  Après des publications dans des fanzines et des revues alternatives , elle a été répérée par des revues littéraires ( la N.R.V, entre autres, qui a publié ses premières nouvelles en 1998 et jusqu’en 2000.)
  
  Chaque sortie de roman a été accompagnée d’un « concert lecture ». Après une commande du Festival « les Correspondances de Manosque » à la sortie de « De ça je me console », elle a, avec ses deux musiciens, effectué une tournée de plus de trente dates qui s’est terminée aux Bouffes du Nord.
  Pour la sortie d

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  Agnès Desarthe

  Agnès Desarthe est un écrivain et traductrice français. Elle écrit aussibien des livres pour adultes que de livres pour enfants.
  
  Agnès Desarthe is a French writer and translator. She writes both for adults and for children.

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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.
  
  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

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  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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  Jean-Pierre Filiu

  Jean-Pierre Filiu (1961) is a French professor of Middle East studies at Sciences Po, Paris School of International Affairs, an Orientalist and an Arabist.

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  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.
  
  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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  Kenizé Mourad

  Kenizé Mourad est une romancière et journaliste française d'origine turco-indienne.
  
  Née à Paris en 1940, Kenizé de Kotwara est la fille d’une princesse turque, membre de la Dynastie ottomane (petite-fille du sultan Mourad V par sa mère Hatidjé Sultane) mariée à un rajah indien mais réfugiée à Paris. Orpheline de sa mère peu après sa naissance, elle est élevée dans un milieu catholique.
  
  À l’âge de 20 ans, la quête de ses origines l’amène à découvrir l’Islam dans textes des grands soufis. Percevant l’Islam comme une religion ouverte et tolérante, elle conçoit son identité musulmane comme « une appartenance plus qu'une religion » à une époque où elle adhère aux « valeurs gauchistes » ambiantes. Tout en effectuant de longs séjours en Inde et au P

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  Jean Anouilh

  Works, such as Antigone (1944), of French playwright Jean Anouilh juxtapose harsh reality and fantasy.
  
  A Basque family bore Anouilh in Cérisole, a small village on the outskirts of Bordeaux. From his father, a tailor, Anouilh maintained that he inherited a dignity in conscientious craftsmanship. He may owe his artistic bent to his mother, a violinist, whose summer seasons in the casino orchestra in the nearby seaside resort of Arcachon supplemented the meager income of the family.
  
  He attended école primaire supérieure and received his secondary education at the Collège Chaptal. Jean-Louis Barrault, a pupil at the same time and later a major director, recalls Anouilh as an intense, rather dandified figure, who hardly noticed a boy some t

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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.
  
  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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  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.
  
  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).

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  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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  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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  Olivier Norek

  Olivier Norek, né en 1975 à Toulouse, est un écrivain et scénariste français, lieutenant à la Police Judiciaire du 93.

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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.
  
  From https://www.amazon.co.uk/Octavios-Jou...

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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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  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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  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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  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.
  Après des études littéraires Lilia Hassaine participe, en 2012, au programme Monde Académie du Monde puis intègre, en 2013, l'Institut français de presse dont elle sort diplômée en 2015. Elle travaille pour Arte, Le Parisien et Le Monde, puis, en 2014, remporte le 5e prix Santé et Citoyenneté du meilleur web-documentaire avec De mèche contre le cancer. En janvier 2018, Lilia Hassaine rejoint Bangumi, la société de production créée par Yann Barthès. Travaillant dans un premier temps en coulisses, elle participe en plateau à l'émission Trump, Saison 1 présentée par Martin Weill le

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  Robert McLiam Wilson

  Robert McLiam Wilson was born in Belfast on 24 February 1966 and studied English at St Catharine's College, Cambridge. He is the author of the novels Ripley Bogle (1989), winner of the Hughes Prize, a Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the Irish Book Award and the Betty Trask Prize; Manfred's Pain (1992); and Eureka Street (1996), winner of the Belfast Arts Award for Literature. He is also the author, with Donovan Wylie, of The Dispossessed (1992), a non-fiction book about poverty.
  
  In 2003, Robert McLiam Wilson was named by Granta magazine as one of 20 'Best of Young British Novelists', despite the fact that he has not published new work in English since 1996.
  ----from British Council site

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  Christopher Bouix

  Christopher Bouix est né en 1982 et écrit pour la jeunesse. Il est l'auteur de "Socrate : un homme dangereux" (L'École des Loisirs, 2017) et de "La Théorie de l'iceberg" (Gallimard Jeunesse, 2018).
  
  Il est également l'auteur de livres universitaires parus aux éditions Les Belles Lettres.

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  Élisabeth Revol

  Élisabeth Revol, née le 29 avril 1979 à Crest (Drôme), est une alpiniste française, notamment connue pour ses réalisations himalayennes en style alpin. Elle débute par son premier sommet à 6 000 m en 2006 puis deux ans plus tard, part sur l’Himalaya. Elle est la première femme à avoir réalisé le triplé Broad Peak - Gasherbrum I - Gasherbrum II en solitaire et sans oxygène. Le Gasherbrum I - Gasherbrum II sont enchaînés en un temps record de 52 heures sans retour au camp de base. Elle est également la première femme à réussir un 8 000 en hiver, en style alpin au Pakistan. Ouverture d'une voie en face nord ouest en hiver2. En janvier 2018, elle bénéficie d'un sauvetage exceptionnel dans des conditions très difficiles sur les pentes du Nanga P

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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.
  
  (from Wikipedia)

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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.
  
  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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  Louise Mey

  Louise Mey is a Paris-based author of contemporary noir novels dealing with themes of domestic and sexual violence, and harassment, often with a feminist slant. The Second Woman is her fourth novel, but the first to be translated into English.

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  Pierre Assouline

  Pierre Assouline is a French author and journalist.

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  Thibault Lambert

  Thibaut Lambert, né le 11 décembre 1987 à Dinant (province de Namur), est un auteur de bande dessinée et illustrateur belge francophone.
  
  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].
  
  Il exerce un

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  Jiří Weil

  Jiří Weil IPA: [jɪr̝iː vaɪl] was a Czech writer. He was Jewish. His noted works include the two novels Life with a Star, and Mendelssohn Is on the Roof, as well as many short stories, and other novels.

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  Guillaume Poix

  Guillaume Poix est né en 1986 dans la banlieue lyonnaise. Il est dramaturge et metteur en scène. Les fils conducteurs est son premier roman.

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  Fabienne Verdier

  Born in Paris.
  Graduated from Ecole des Beaux-arts de Toulouse.
  Awarded a post-graduate scholarship at the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, China.
  Studied painting, aesthetics and philosophy at the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute with some of the last great traditional masters.

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  Marisa Madieri

  Marisa Madieri è stata una scrittrice italiana. In origine il cognome della famiglia paterna (fiumana, ma di origini evidentemente ungheresi) era Madjarić, poi fu modificato in Madierich e successivamente in Madieri. La famiglia, esule dall'Istria, riparò a Trieste nel 1949, e per molti mesi visse in condizioni precarie, insieme a tanti altri profughi italiani, nel campo profughi del Silos presso la stazione ferroviaria. Di questo periodo avrebbe scritto poi nel suo primo libro Verde acqua (Einaudi 1987) in cui narra dell'esodo di Fiume, dell'identità di questa città e di altri fatti legati alla sua infanzia e adolescenza, in cui la memoria è anche ricerca delle proprie radici.
  
  Studiò lingue e letterature straniere a Firenze, dove conobbe lo

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  Ahmadou Kourouma

  Ahmadou Kourouma, (November 24, 1927 – December 11, 2003) was an Ivorian novelist.
  The eldest son of a distinguished Malinké family, Ahmadou Kourouma was born in 1927 in Côte d'Ivoire. Raised by his uncle, he initially pursued studies in Bamako, Mali. From 1950 to 1954, when his country was still under French colonial control, he participated in French military campaigns in Indochina, after which he journeyed to France to study mathematics in Lyon.
  Kourouma returned to his native Côte d'Ivoire after it won its independence in 1960, yet he quickly found himself questioning the government of Félix Houphouët-Boigny. After brief imprisonment, Kourouma spent several years in exile, first in Algeria (1964-1969), then in Cameroon (1974-1984) and Tog

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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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  Fritz Zorn

  Angst is best known for his autobiograpical essay Mars (1976), which was published under the pseudonym of Fritz Zorn after his death from cancer. It describes and sharply criticizes his upbringing, parents, and environment in one of the most wealthy lakeshore neighborhoods of Zurich, Switzerland. It has been made into a comic book and a play.

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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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  Philippe Lançon

  Philippe Lançon est un journaliste et romancier français né en 1963 à Vanves. Lançon est journaliste au quotidien Libération, chroniqueur et critique littéraire, avec une passion particulière pour la littérature latino-américaine. Il a longtemps tenu la chronique Après coup consacrée à la télévision, et a participé au lancement des pages Portrait.
  Il est également chroniqueur pour l'hebdomadaire Charlie Hebdo et à partir de fin 2014 devient un membre de la tribune « théâtre » du Masque et la Plume sur France Inter.
  Le 7 janvier 2015, il est gravement blessé au cours d'un attentat contre Charlie Hebdo, ce qui l'amène à subir une intervention chirurgicale lourde de quatre heures au niveau du visage. Il subira jusqu'à 22 passages au bloc, dont 1

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  Henry de Monfreid

  Henry de Monfreid (14 November 1879 in Leucate – 13 December 1974) was a French adventurer and author. Born in Leucate, Aude, France, he was the son of artist painter Georges-Daniel de Monfreid and knew Paul Gauguin as a child.
  
  Monfreid was famous for his travels in the Red Sea and the Horn of Africa coast from Tanzania to Aden, Yemen, the Arabian Peninsula and Suez, that he sailed in his various expeditions as adventurer, smuggler and gunrunner (during which he said he more than once escaped the Royal Navy coast-guards cutters).
  
  Monfreid is probably best known in the English-speaking world for the following two books:
  
  Hashish: A Smuggler's Tale and
  Secrets of the Red Sea, a book about gunrunning.
  
  His books include
  
  Les secrets de la mer Rouge

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  Sergi Pons Codina

  Sergi Pons i Codina (Barcelona, 1979) és un escriptor català resident a Parets del Vallès. El 2007, coincidint amb el naixement del seu primer fill, donà un tomb a la seva vida i es concentrà en la vida familiar. Lector voraç de les obres de Pere Calders, John Fante i Pedro Juan Gutiérrez, entre molts d'altres, l'any 2012 començà a escriure la seva primera novel·la de l'anomenada «trilogia de Sant Andreu».

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  Pierre Bordage

  Pierre Bordage a grandi en Vendée. Aimant le sport, il pratiquera pendant neuf ans le karaté. Il s'inscrit en lettres modernes à la faculté de Nantes. En 1975, au cours d'un atelier d'écriture, il découvre la science-fiction avec notamment les Chroniques martiennes de Ray Bradbury.
  
  Il fera plusieurs voyages en Asie et pratiquera différents métiers, dont celui de libraire pendant plusieurs années.
  
  En 1985, alors qu'il habite dans le Gers, il écrit son premier roman Les Guerriers du Silence qu'aucune maison d'édition n'acceptera. Il devient journaliste sportif, déménage à Paris où il rencontre en 1992 son premier éditeur, Vaugirard, qui lui propose d'écrire le Cycle de Rohel le Conquérant.
  
  L'année suivante, il découvre chez un petit éditeur nant

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  Mihai Buzea

  Absolvent de filologie (1996) și de master (2005), a fost profesor și reporter. În prezent este colaborator la revistele Timpul, Dilema Veche și Familia. În ianuarie 2014 a plecat la Londra, unde a învățat meseria de arborist, experiență descrisă în cartea Gastarbeiter (2017). A publicat în 2006 romanul Berile de Aur, în 2018 Jimmy și Povestea lui Vasile Pogor, în 2019 Recrutorii, în 2021 Paralel iar în 2022 Vulcan, Lumina vine de la Asfințit și Frunza.

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