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.
François Bon is a French writer and translator.
The Prix Sorcières is an annual literary prize awarded in France since 1986 to works of children's literature in a number of categories. The categories were renamed in 2018.
Laura l'immortelle is a novel by Marie-Pier Côté, a Québécois Canadian author. The book was published by Les Éditions des Intouchables on January 17, 2007, when Côté was 12 years old.
Henri Deberly, born in 1882 in Amiens (France) and died in 1947, was a French writer, winner of the Prix Goncourt in 1926.
Kitty Crowther is a Belgian illustrator and writer of children's books. For her career contribution to "children's and young adult literature in the broadest sense" she won the 2010 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award from the Swedish Arts Council, the biggest prize in children's literature.
Carl Norac is a Walloon Belgian author of children's books and poetry.
Lambert Schlechter is a Luxembourg author who has published some 40 books written in French, most of them published in France and two written in German published in Luxembourg. His work includes poetry, novels, short stories and essays. A great number of contributions to newspapers, magazines and anthologies in different countries. Since 2006 he is working on a greater prose project under the general title "Le Murmure du monde": a collection of literary, philosophical and autobiographical fragments; so far nine volumes have been published, X, XI and XII are in preparation.
Étienne Klein is a French physicist and philosopher of science, born in 1958. A graduate of École Centrale Paris, he holds a DEA in theoretical physics, as well as a Ph.D. in philosophy of science and an accreditation to supervise research (HDR).
Mathias Énard is a French novelist. He studied Persian and Arabic and spent long periods in the Middle East. He has lived in Barcelona for about fifteen years, interrupted in 2013 by a writing residency in Berlin. He won several awards for Zone, including the Prix du Livre Inter and the Prix Décembre, and won the Prix Goncourt/Le Choix de l’Orient, the Prix littéraire de la Porte Dorée, and the Prix du Roman-News for Rue des Voleurs. He won the 2015 Prix Goncourt for Boussole (Compass). In 2020 he was Friedrich Dürrenmatt Guest Professor for World Literature at the University of Bern.
The prix Amerigo-Vespucci is a French literary award established in 1990, during the first International Festival of Geography (IFG) at Saint-Dié-des-Vosges. It rewards works on the theme of adventure and travel and refers to the Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci.
Frédéric Boyer is a French author of novels, poems, essays, and translations.
Michel Gay is a French illustrator and author of children's books.
Jean-Philippe Arrou-Vignod is a French novelist. He is known for the series Enquête au collège and the Une famille aux petits oignons stories.
Anna Luisa Pignatelli della Leonessa dei Principi di Monteroduni is an Italian novelist and an aristocrat of German ancestry.
Beatrice Alemagna is an Italian illustrator and author.
Pippo Delbono is an Italian author, actor, and director.
Roxane Desjardins is a Canadian writer from Quebec. She is the editor and general manager of the publishing house, Les Herbes rouges.
Audrey Spiry is a French animator, illustrator, and comic strip author. Her first album, En silence, was released in 2012. L’expédition was honoured with the Prix Sorcières, category Carrément Beau Maxi (2023). She is a member of Collective of female comics creators against sexism and works in animation.
Il dio vagabondo is the third comic book by the Italian writer and artist Fabrizio Dori, published by Oblomov Edizioni in 2018. The story combines a modern setting with Greek mythology and switches between burlesque humour and dramatic content. It follows the satyr Eustis who teams up with an elderly professor and a ghost as he goes on a quest for redemption after the gods have disappeared.
