Patrick Chamoiseau is a French author from Martinique known for his work in the créolité movement. His work spans a variety of forms and genres, including novels, essays, children's books, screenplays, theatre and comics. His novel Texaco was awarded the Prix Goncourt in 1992.
Marcel Paul Pagnol was a French novelist, playwright, and filmmaker. Regarded as an auteur, in 1946, he became the first filmmaker elected to the Académie française. Although his work is less fashionable than it once was, Pagnol is still generally regarded as one of France's greatest 20th-century writers and is notable for the fact that he excelled in almost every medium—memoir, novel, drama and film.
Sylvie Germain is a French author.
Abdellatif Laâbi is a Moroccan poet, journalist, novelist, playwright, translator and political activist, born in 1942 in Fes, Morocco.
Michel Mohrt was an editor, essayist, novelist and historian of French literature.
Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt is a Franco-Belgian playwright, short story writer and novelist, as well as a film director. His plays have been staged in over fifty countries all over the world.
Catherine Belkhodja is a French artist, actress and film director.
Caroline Lamarche is a French-speaking writer. She was born in Liège and spent her early childhood in Spain and her later childhood near Paris. With a degree in Romance languages, she taught in Liège and in Nigeria. As of 2008, she lives on the outskirts of Brussels.
Juliette Benzoni was a French author and international bestseller in several genres, including historical romance, historical fiction, mystery and screenwriting. In 1998, at the age of 78, she received the Chevalier de l'Ordre National from President Jacques Chirac.
Suzanne Aubry is a Canadian novelist, screenwriter and playwright from Montreal.
Ezza Agha Malak is a Lebanese-born French novelist, poet, critic and essayist.
Marie Laberge is a Quebec actress, educator and writer.
Suzanne Lebeau is a Québécois actor and writer.
Jakuta Alikavazovic is a French writer. Her debut novel Corps volatils was awarded the prix Goncourt du premier roman. In 2021, her latest novel Night As It Falls was published in the United Kingdom by Faber & Faber.
Hédi Kaddour is a French poet and novelist.
Roger Vrigny was a 20th-century French writer.
Patricia Reznikov is a Franco-American writer.
Kaouther Adimi, is a writer, graduate in modern literature and human resources management. She works today in Paris, where she has lived since 2009.
Renan Larue is a French writer, literary scholar and historian of vegetarianism. He is the author of several books on vegetarianism or veganism, including Le végétarisme et ses ennemis (2015), a history of vegetarianism from Pythagoras until the modern day, and La pensée végane: 50 regards sur la condition animale (2020). In 2016 he offered the first course in vegan studies in the United States at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Martine L. Jacquot is a French-born novelist, poet, short story writer and journalist, living in Canada since 1982. She has a doctorate in French literature.
