The Prix Théophraste-Renaudot or Prix Renaudot is a French literary award.
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.
Laurence Ruel, known by her pen name Camille Laurens, is a French writer and winner of the 2000 Prix Femina for Dans ces bras-là. Laurens is a member of the Académie Goncourt.
Agnès Desarthe is a French novelist, children's writer and translator.
Delphine de Vigan is an internationally known French novelist who has won several awards.
Djaili Amadou Amal is a Cameroonian writer, and feminist activist.
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.
Brigitte Giraud is a French writer, author of novels and short stories. She was awarded the 2022 Prix Goncourt for her autobiographical novel Vivre vite.
Salim Bachi is an Algerian novelist who grew up in Annaba, eastern Algeria. After a one-year stay in Paris in 1995, he returned there in 1997 to study literature. A pensioner at the French Academy in Rome in 2005, he now lives and works in Paris.
Simon Liberati is a French writer and journalist. For his novels, he has received the Prix de Flore (2009), Prix Femina (2011) and Prix Renaudot (2022).
Patricia Reznikov is a Franco-American writer.
Françoise Lefèvre is a French writer discovered by publisher Jean-Jacques Pauvert. She is a recipient of the Grand prix des lectrices de Elle
Carole Martinez is a French contemporary novelist.
Mohamed Mbougar Sarr is a Senegalese writer. Raised in Diourbel, Senegal and later studying in France, Sarr is the author of four novels as well as a number of award-winning short stories. He won the 2021 Prix Goncourt for his novel La plus secrète mémoire des hommes, becoming the first Sub-Saharan African to do so.
Grégoire Delacourt is a French advertiser and writer.
Karine Tuil, is a French novelist who has written several award-winning novels in French and English. Her works have themes ranging from marriage and Jewish identity to detention centers and corporate politics.
Kaouther Adimi, is a writer, graduate in modern literature and human resources management. She works today in Paris, where she has lived since 2009.
Small Country is a novel set in Burundi by the Franco-Rwandan rapper, songwriter and novelist, Gaël Faye. It was first published in France in August 2016 by Grasset, and has since been translated into 36 languages.
Adeline Dieudonné is a Belgian writer. She is best known for her debut novel Real Life (2018), which won numerous literary prizes in the Francophone world, among them:
The Art of Losing is a 2017 novel by Alice Zeniter, translated from French to English by Frank Wynne, which won the International Dublin Literary Award in 2022. The novel demystifies the Algerian War. It is Zeniter's fifth book and the second translated in English. The Art of Losing is also the recipient of the 2017 Prix Goncourt des Lycéens, Porte Dorée Literary Prize and Le Monde’s Literary Prize.
