Franck Thilliez (born 15 October 1973 in Annecy) is a French writer. [1] Thilliez was a computer engineer for a decade before he began writing. [2] His book La Chambre des morts was made into a film.
Franck Thilliez (born 15 October 1973 in Annecy) is a French writer. [1] Thilliez was a computer engineer for a decade before he began writing. [2] His book La Chambre des morts was made into a film.
The Prix Goncourt is a prize in French literature, given by the académie Goncourt to the author of "the best and most imaginative prose work of the year". Four other prizes are also awarded: prix Goncourt du Premier Roman, prix Goncourt de la Nouvelle, prix Goncourt de la Poésie (poetry) and prix Goncourt de la Biographie (biography). Of the "big six" French literary awards, the Prix Goncourt is the best known and most prestigious. The other major literary prizes are the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française, the Prix Femina, the Prix Renaudot, the Prix Interallié and the Prix Médicis.
Gérard Manset is a French singer-songwriter, painter, photographer and writer. He is best known for his musical work. Since 1972, the covers of his albums state his name as simply "Manset".
Marc Dugain is a French novelist and film director, best known for La Chambre des Officiers (1999), a novel set in World War I.
The Anti-Sacrilege Act (1825–1830) was a French law against blasphemy and sacrilege passed in April 1825 under King Charles X. The death penalty provision of the law was never applied, but a man named François Bourquin was sentenced to perpetual forced labour for sacrilegial burglary; the law was later revoked at the beginning of the July Monarchy under King Louis-Philippe.
Clément Rosset was a French philosopher and writer. He was a professor of philosophy at the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, and the author of books on 20th-century philosophy and postmodern philosophy.
Franck-Yannick-Gilbert Monnet is a French singer-songwriter.
Paul Halter is a writer of crime fiction known for his locked room mysteries.
Claude Hagège is a French linguist.
The Grand prix des lectrices de Elle is a French literary prize awarded by readers of Elle magazine.
Room of Death is a 2007 French crime film based on the novel La Chambre des morts by Franck Thilliez.
Édouard Montoute is a French actor.
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.
Stéphane Charbonnier, better known as Charb, was a French satirical caricaturist and journalist. He was assassinated by Islamic terrorists during the Charlie Hebdo shooting on 7 January 2015.
The Prix Maison de la Presse is an annual French literary prize, established in 1970 by the Syndicat national des dépositaires de presse (SNDP) and Gabriel Cantin. Until 2005 it was known as Prix des Maisons de la Presse and given out in the two categories Novel (Roman) and Non-Fiction (Document), after which the name was changed and the categories merged into one.
The Prix Mystère de la critique was established in 1972 by the magazine Mystère magazine, published by the Éditions OPTA from 1948 to 1976, and continues to be awarded each year by its founder, Georges Rieben and his team. It has the characteristic of having survived the demise of the magazine.
The Société d'étude du XVIIe is a French learned society established in Paris in 1948 along the status of an association loi de 1901 in order to bring together specialists of this period and to develop studies on this century.
Denis Emorine, born in 1956 near Paris, is a French poet, playwright, short-story writer, essayist and novelist.
Jean-Michel Guenassia is a French writer.
Paul Charles-René Landormy was a French musicologist and music critic.
Franck Ferrari was a French baritone.
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