The Prix Jean Vigo is an award in the French cinema given annually since 1951 to a French film director, in homage to Jean Vigo. Since 1960, the award has been given to both a director of a feature film and to a director of a short film. The award is usually given to a young director, for their independent spirit and stylistic originality.
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.
Cheikh Tidiane Gaye Senegalese-Italian writer, essayist, poet and peace activist.
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.
Toni Demuro is an Italian illustrator.
Andrée Poulin is a Canadian writer. She was born in Orleans, Ontario, now part of Ottawa. She worked as a journalist before becoming a full-time writer. Poulin now lives in Gatineau, Quebec.
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.
Aurélie Neyret is a French illustrator and cartoonist of bande dessinée.
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.
