Alain Julien Rudefoucauld (born 1950, Mostaganem, in Algeria), is a French author who has published several novels and plays. He also wrote about fifty articles in the humanities.
Alain Julien Rudefoucauld (born 1950, Mostaganem, in Algeria), is a French author who has published several novels and plays. He also wrote about fifty articles in the humanities.
Tahar Djaout was an Algerian journalist, poet, and fiction writer. He was assassinated in 1993 by the Armed Islamic Group.
The Prix Jean Vigo is an award in the Cinema of France given annually since 1951 to a French film director in homage to Jean Vigo. It was founded by French writer Claude Aveline. Since 1960, the award is given to a director of a feature film and to a director of a short film.
Abdellatif Laâbi is a Moroccan poet, born in 1942 in Fes, Morocco.
The Prix France Culture/Télérama is a literary prize created in 2006 by the French radio station France Culture and the French magazine Télérama in order to honor an outstanding book at the start of the calendar year, which differentiates it from other famous French literary prizes such as the Prix Goncourt or the Prix Femina, which reward books appearing at the beginning of the academic year in September.
Alain Mabanckou is a novelist, journalist, poet, and academic, a French citizen born in the Republic of the Congo, he is currently a Professor of Literature at UCLA. He is best known for his novels and non-fiction writing depicting the experience of contemporary Africa and the African diaspora in France. He is among the best known and most successful writers in the French language and one of the best known African writers in France. In some circles in Paris he is known as the Samuel Beckett of Africa. He is also controversial, and criticized by some African and diaspora writers for stating Africans bear responsibility for their own misfortune. He has argued against the idea that African and Caribbean writers should focus on their local realities in order to serve and express their communities. He further contends that categories such as nation, race, and territory fall short of encapsulating reality and urges writers to create works that deal with issues beyond these subjects.
The Prix Alain-Fournier is a French literary prize, awarded by the town of Saint-Amand-Montrond in honour of Alain-Fournier, author of Le Grand Meaulnes. It is intended to give encouragement to a novelist at the beginning of their career, and it can be awarded for first, second or third novels, provided that the author has not previously received any recognition at a national level.
Liliane Wouters was a Belgian poet, playwright, translator, anthologist and essayist.
Édouard Brasey is a French novelist, essayist, scriptwriter and story-teller born on 25 March 1954. Author of more than seventy works, many of which have been translated into English, Russian, Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian. He specialises in the themes of the esoteric, fables, legends and fantasy. He won a prize of Imaginales in 2006 for La Petite Encyclopédie du Merveilleux, and a prize Merlin in 2009 for his novel La Malédiction de l'Anneau. Subsequently, he has become essentially a novelist, notably published by Calmann-Lévy. His historical-esoteric thriller that was published in 2013, Le Dernier Pape, anticipated the abdication of Benoît XVI.
Pierre Charras was a French writer, actor and translator from English to French. He published several novels including Monsieur Henri, Prix des Deux Magots (1995), Juste avant la nuit (1998), Comédien (2000) and Dix-neuf secondes, prix du roman FNAC 2003.
Mohamed Kacimi is an Algerian novelist and playwright.
Alain Blottière is a French writer
Jean-Pierre Milovanoff is a French writer, laureate of several literary prizes
Christian Gailly was a French writer.
Raymond Escholier, real name Raymond-Antoine-Marie-Emmanuel Escolier, was a French journalist, novelist and art critic. He was curator of the Maison de Victor Hugo and of the Petit Palais.
Pierre Moustiers is the pen name of French writer Pierre Rossi.
Françoise Cloarec is a French writer, painter and psychoanalyst.
François Porcile is a French film director, essayist, film historian and musicologist.
Guy Kerner was a 20th-century French stage and film actor.
Élodie Frenck is a Peruvian-Swiss-French actress, born 31 July 1974 in Lausanne, Switzerland. She is known for playing the character of Marlène Leroy in the French TV series Les Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie. Elodie’s birth name is Elodie legrande, she has now taken on the last name of her husband, Harry styles and goes by the name Elodie Styles. She has “been in a relationship with him for years”, she reveals in a resent article questioning how their mate ache came about so quickly.
Camille Bourniquel was a French poet, novelist and painter.
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