Frédéric-Louis Sauser, better known as Blaise Cendrars, was a Swiss-born novelist and poet who became a naturalized French citizen in 1916. He was a writer of considerable influence in the European modernist movement.
Jean Giono was a French writer who wrote works of fiction mostly set in the Provence region of France.
Julien Gracq was a French writer. He wrote novels, critiques, a play, and poetry. His literary works were noted for their dreamlike abstraction, elegant style and refined vocabulary. He was close to the surrealist movement, in particular its leader André Breton.
Pierre Repp was a French humorist and actor. His real name was Pierre Alphonse Léon Frédéric Bouclet. On 14 August 1930, he married Ferdinande Alice Andrée Bouclet in Lille.
Dany Laferrière is a Haitian-Canadian novelist and journalist who writes in French. He was elected to seat 2 of the Académie française on 12 December 2013, and inducted in May 2015.
Fouad Laroui is a Moroccan economist and writer, born in Oujda, Morocco. After his studies at the Lycée Lyautey (Casablanca), he joined the prestigious École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, where he studied engineering. After working shortly for the Office Cherifien des Phosphates company in Khouribga (Morocco), he moved to the United Kingdom where he spent several years in Cambridge and York. Later he obtained a PhD in economics and moved to Amsterdam where he started his career as a writer. He has published about twenty books between novels, collections of short stories and essays and two collections of poetry in Dutch. He has won several literary prizes, amongst which the Prix Goncourt de la nouvelle, the Prix Jean-Giono and the Grande Médaille de la littérature de l'Académie française.
Laurent Gaudé is a French writer.
Patrick Grainville is a French novelist.
Dominique Barbéris is a French novelist, author of literary studies and university professor, specializing in stylistics and writing workshops.
Charles Dantzig is a French author, born in Tarbes (France) on October 7, 1961.
François Leterrier was a French film director and actor. He entered the film industry when he was cast in Robert Bresson's film A Man Escaped. After this he went on to become a director himself.
A King Without Distraction is a 1963 French mystery film directed by François Leterrier, starring Claude Giraud and Colette Renard. The story is set in the winter of 1843 and follows a police captain who investigates the disappearance of several little girls from a village.
André Thirion was a French writer, a member of the group of surrealists, a theorist and political activist.
Stéphane Hoffmann is a French writer.
Michel Caffier was a French journalist, writer, and literary critic. He is the author of an abundant work centered on Lorraine: historical novels, essays and reference works, including the Dictionnaire des littératures de Lorraine.
Armel Job is a Belgian writer of French language, former Director of the Institut Notre Dame Séminaire of Bastogne (INDSé).
Jean Giono was a French author who wrote works of fiction mostly set in Manosque in the Provence region of France.
Claude Pierre Edmond Giraud was a French actor.
T. Trilby, pseudonym of Thérèse de Marnyhac, was a French novelist. She also used the pseudonyms Mme Louis Delhaye and Marraine Odette.
Emmanuelle Lambert is a French writer.
