Anne Cécile Desclos was a French journalist and novelist who wrote under the pen names Dominique Aury and Pauline Réage. She is best known for her erotic novel Story of O (1954).
Maurice Blanchot was a French writer, philosopher and literary theorist. His work, exploring a philosophy of death alongside poetic theories of meaning and sense, bore significant influence on post-structuralist philosophers such as Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Nancy.
Philippe Sollers is a French writer and critic. In 1960 he founded the avant garde literary journal Tel Quel, which was published by Le Seuil and ran until 1982. Sollers then created the journal L'Infini, published first by Denoel, then by Gallimard with Sollers remaining as sole editor.
Tel Quel was a French avant-garde literary magazine published between 1960 and 1982.
Anne Wiazemsky was a French actress and novelist. She made her cinema debut at the age of 18, playing Marie, the lead character in Robert Bresson's Au Hasard Balthazar (1966), and went on to appear in several of Jean-Luc Godard's films, among them La Chinoise (1967), Week End (1967), and One Plus One (1968).
Pierre Guyotat was a French writer.
Marcelin Pleynet is a French poet, art critic and essayist. He was Managing Editor of the influential magazine Tel Quel from 1962 to 1982, and co-edits the journal L'Infini (Gallimard) with Philippe Sollers. He was Professor of Aesthetics at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris from 1987 to 1998. He has published numerous monographs on 20th-century art, notably Situation de l’art moderne: Paris-New York, Henri Matisse, Robert Motherwell: La vérité en peinture, Les Modernes et la tradition, Les États-Units de la peinture and L’art abstrait. He has also published books of poetry and the novel Prise d’otage, and an edition of Giorgione et les deux Vénus.
Serge Lehman is the primary pseudonym of French science fiction writer Pascal Fréjean.
Marc-Édouard Nabe is a French writer, painter and jazz guitarist.
Bruno Aveillan is a French filmmaker, photographer, and contemporary artist.
eRikm is a French musician, composer and visual artist who has been active in art since 1992. He is noted for his work with turntables.
Peter Szendy is a French philosopher and musicologist. He is the David Herlihy Professor of Humanities and Comparative Literature at Brown University.
François Noudelmann is a contemporary French philosopher, university professor and radio producer.
ParisLike is a bi-lingual e-journal devoted to the new artistic, literary, intellectual and scientific practices. Founded in 2011 by Alessandro Mercuri and Haijun Park, the review features video documentaries, performances, interviews, critical essays and illustrated texts subtitled and translated into English.
Catherine Cusset is a best-selling French novelist and the author of Life of David Hockney: A Novel, The Story of Jane, and 12 other novels published by Éditions Gallimard between 1990 and 2018. Some of her novels are described as autofiction, a French literary movement that is a hybrid of fiction and autobiography. Others are more romantic, but all share some recurring themes: the family, desire, and cultural conflicts between France and America. She stands out from her contemporaries with a direct, incisive, visual form of writing, marked by the influence of Anglo-Saxon novelists.
Michel Surya is a French writer, philosopher and publisher. A specialist of Georges Bataille, he is the founder and director of the journal Lignes and the Éditions Lignes.
Yannick Haenel is a French writer, cofounder of the literary magazine Ligne de risque.
Pierre Bourgeade was a French man of letters, playwright, poet, writer, director, journalist, literary critic and photographer. A descendant of Jean Racine, he was also the brother-in-law of the writer Paule Constant.
Béatrice Commengé is a French novelist and translator.
Gabriel Michel Hippolyte Matzneff is a French writer. He was the winner of the Mottard and Amic awards from the Académie française in 1987 and 2009 respectively, the Prix Renaudot essay in 2013 and the Prix Cazes in 2015.
