Claude Arnaud (born 24 April 1955 in Paris) is a French writer, essayist, biographer. He won the 2006 Prix Femina Essai. [1]
He worked as an offset printing activist, and participated with the Workers' Struggle.
From 1977–83 he worked in "Film" monthly, led by Jacques Fieschi. He studied literature at the University of Vincennes. He wrote a play about "the redemptive powers of love," with Bernard Minoret, "Les salons" ("Trade shows"). In 1988, he published a biography of Nicolas Chamfort.
He was Resident at the Villa Medici in Rome in 1989 and 1990.
Claude Arnaud.
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.
Albert Memmi was a French-Tunisian writer and essayist of Tunisian-Jewish origins.
Alain Chamfort is a French singer of Breton origin.
Daniel Pennac is a French writer. He received the Prix Renaudot in 2007 for his essay Chagrin d'école.
Daniel Picouly is a French writer.
Jean Cau was a French writer and journalist.
Catherine Clément is a French philosopher, novelist, feminist, and literary critic, born in Boulogne-Billancourt. She received a degree in philosophy from the prestigious École Normale Supérieure, and studied under its faculty Claude Lévi-Strauss and Jacques Lacan, working in the fields of anthropology and psychoanalysis. A member of the school of French feminism and écriture féminine, she has published books with Hélène Cixous and Julia Kristeva.
Alain Veinstein is a poet and writer, winner of the Mallarmé prize and a host and producer of radio.
Patrick Rambaud is a French writer.
Pierre Combescot was a French journalist and writer. He worked for the Canard Enchaîné, under the pseudonym Luc Décygnes. He was also a columnist in Paris Match.
Gérard de Cortanze is a French writer, essayist, translator and literary critic. He won the Prix Renaudot in 2002 for his historical novel Assam. He was made a chevalier of the Legion of Honor in 2009.
Jean-Marc Roberts was a French editor, novelist, and screenwriter.
Georges Borgeaud was a Swiss writer and publisher.
Jean Freustié, also known as Jean Pierre Teurlay was a French writer and literary critic. He won the 1969 Prix du roman de la société des gens de lettres, and 1970 Prix Renaudot, for Isabelle ou l'arrière-saison.
Célia Bertin was a French writer, journalist, biographer, French Resistance fighter and winner of the 1953 Prix Renaudot. She was awarded as an Officer of the Legion of Honour, and an Officer of Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
The Roger Nimier Prize is a French literature award. It is supposed to go to "a young author whose spirit is in line with the literary works of Roger Nimier". Nimier (1925–1962) was a novelist and a leading member of the Hussards movement. The prize was established in 1963 at the initiative of André Parinaud and Denis Huisman and is handed out annually during the second half of May. It comes with a sum of 5000 euro.
Michel Luneau was a French poet, writer, publisher from Brittany. Also a galierist, from 1998 he directed the centre for contemporary art of la Rairie at Pont-Saint-Martin.
The Prix Jean-Freustié is a French literary prize created in 1987 by Christiane Teurlay-Freustié, second wife of writer and publisher Jean Freustie (1914–1983) to which it pays tribute, and his friends Nicole and Frédéric Vitoux as well as writer Bernard Frank. It rewards a French-speaking writer for a prose work: novel, short stories, autobiography, biography or essay. The prize is awarded annually.
Philippe Grimbert is a French writer and psychoanalyst.
Emmanuelle Loyer is a French historian, winner of the prix Femina essai 2015 for her biography of Claude Lévi-Strauss.