Fantastique is a French term for a literary and cinematic genre that overlaps with science fiction, horror, and fantasy.
The Nouveau Roman is a type of 1950s French novel that diverged from classical literary genres. Émile Henriot coined the term in an article in the popular French newspaper Le Monde on May 22, 1957 to describe certain writers who experimented with style in each novel, creating an essentially new style each time. Most of the founding authors were published by Les Éditions de Minuit with the strong support of Jérôme Lindon.
Michael Joyce is a retired professor of English at Vassar College, New York, US. He is also an important author and critic of electronic literature.
Marc Caro is a French filmmaker and cartoonist best known for his projects with Jean-Pierre Jeunet.
Yves Meynard is a Canadian science fiction and fantasy writer. He writes in both English and French.
The grand prix de l'Imaginaire, until 1992 the grand prix de la science-fiction française, is a French literary award for speculative fiction, established in 1972 by the writer Jean-Pierre Fontana as part of the science fiction convention of Clermont-Ferrand.
Radio Courtoisie is a French radio station and cultural associative union created in 1987 by Jean Ferré.
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".
Alain Borer, is a French poet, art critic, essayist, novelist, playwright, writer-traveler, signatory of the Littérature-monde manifesto, and eminent authority on the works of Arthur Rimbaud. He has been Professor of Art at L'École supérieure des beaux-arts de Tours since 1979 and Visiting Professor of French Literature at the University of Southern California since 2005. He received the Kessel Prize for his novel Koba, as well as the 70th Prix Apollinaire for his play Icare & I don't (Seuil). In 2010, Borer was awarded the 10th Pierre Mac Orlan Prize for Le Ciel & la carte, carnet de voyage dans les mers du Sud à bord de La Boudeuse (Seuil), and the Maurice Genevoix Prize from the Académie Française in 2011. Alain Borer was made a Knight (1985), then Officer (1993) of Arts and Letters in the French Legion of Honour, and is President of the Printemps des Poètes association. Alain Borer additionally received the Édouard Glissant Prize in 2005, awarded by the University of Paris VIII for all of his achievements.
François Jullien is a French philosopher, Hellenist, and sinologist.
Bastien Lecouffe Deharme is a French visual artist, illustrator, digital painter and novelist, whose work is mainly in the science-fiction, cyberpunk and dark fantasy genre. He currently lives in Portsmouth, Ohio, USA.
Oroshi is the Japanese term for a wind blowing strong down the slope of a mountain, occasionally as strong gusts of wind which can cause damage. Oroshi is a strong local wind across the Kanto Plain on the Pacific Ocean side of central Honshu. This term identifies a katabatic wind.
French science fiction is a substantial genre of French literature. It remains an active and productive genre which has evolved in conjunction with anglophone science fiction and other French and international literature.
Rone is a French electronic music producer and artist.
Monique Bosco was an Austrian-born Canadian journalist and writer.
Jacques Folch-Ribas is a Canadian novelist and art critic from Quebec.
Elbakin.net is a French website created in 2000, dealing with fantasy in all media. It is one of the main Francophone information websites dedicated to the fantasy genre. Since 2006, the main contributors to the website formed an eponymous association which manages the website and undertakes cultural actions in the same field.
Éric Dupont is a Canadian writer from Quebec. His 2006 novel La Logeuse was the winner of the 2008 edition of Le Combat des livres, and his 2012 novel La fiancée américaine was a competing title in the 2013 edition of the program; the latter novel's English translation, Songs for the Cold of Heart, was shortlisted for the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize.
Alain Lortie, commonly known under the pseudonym Daniel Sernine, is a French Canadian writer.
Alain Ayroles is a French author, playwright, screenwriter and translator known best for his graphic novels Garulfo, De cape et de crocs and Les Indes Fourbes.
