This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1999.
Gilles Vigneault is a Québécois poet, publisher, singer-songwriter, and Quebec nationalist and sovereigntist. Two of his songs are considered by many to be Quebec's unofficial anthems: "Mon pays" and "Gens du pays", and his line Mon pays ce n'est pas un pays, c'est l'hiver became a proverb in Quebec. Vigneault is a Grand Officer of the National Order of Quebec, Knight of the Legion of Honour, and Officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
French personal pronouns reflect the person and number of their referent, and in the case of the third person, its gender as well. They also reflect the role they play in their clause: subject, direct object, indirect object, or other.
Anna Gavalda is a French teacher and award-winning novelist.
Dion chante Plamondon is the tenth studio album by Canadian singer Celine Dion. It was originally released on 4 November 1991 by Columbia Records and features French-language songs with words written by French-Canadian lyricist, Luc Plamondon. In Francophone countries in Europe, the album was renamed Des mots qui sonnent, meaning Words That Resonate. It includes French hit song, "Un garçon pas comme les autres (Ziggy)". Dion chante Plamondon won the Juno Award for Francophone Album of the Year and Félix Award for Best Selling Album of the Year. It topped the chart in Quebec and reached number four in France.
Robert Goldman is a French songwriter. He was born in Paris, the son of Alter Mojze Goldman and Ruth Ambrunn who were Jewish Resistance fighters during the Second World War. He is the younger brother of Jean-Jacques Goldman and half-brother of Pierre Goldman.
In French, elision refers to the suppression of a final unstressed vowel immediately before another word beginning with a vowel. The term also refers to the orthographic convention by which the deletion of a vowel is reflected in writing, and indicated with an apostrophe.
"Quelqu'un que j'aime, quelqu'un qui m'aime" is the fourth promotional single from Celine Dion's 1991 French-language album, Dion chante Plamondon. It was released in Canada in August 1992. "Quelqu'un que j'aime, quelqu'un qui m'aime" was one of four new songs on Dion chante Plamondon, written by Luc Plamondon. Erown composed the music. The track was produced by Jannick Top and Serge Perathoner. It reached number one in Quebec and was nominated for the Félix Award for Most Popular Song of the Year.
Quelqu'un m'a dit is the debut studio album of Italian-French singer-songwriter, model, and former First Lady of France Carla Bruni. It was produced, recorded and mixed by Louis Bertignac and released in 2003.
Severin Cecile Abega was a Cameroonian author, anthropologist and researcher.
Guillaume Dustan was an openly gay French writer. Dustan's 1998 novel, In My Room, brought the author instant notoriety for his masterful use of autofiction and depiction of gay glamour and romance in mid-1990s Paris.
Frédéric François, is a French-speaking singer-composer living in Belgium.
Jean-Jacques Gautier was French theatre critic, novelist and essayist. A Norman via his father and a champenois via his mother, he was elected a member of the Académie française in 1972.
Robert Cogoi is a Belgian singer, best known for his participation in the 1964 Eurovision Song Contest.
Françoise Pichard, also known as Chard and Pscharr, is a French far-right political cartoonist and illustrator of children books.
Anna Chalon, also known under the stage name Kiddo, is a French singer-songwriter, guitarist, and performer. She wrote and performed the song Run and Hide for the film Je l'aimais, based on the book by Anna Gavalda. She composes and performs the title Hush Hush played during the end credits of No et moi based on the novel of Delphine de Vigan. She is the daughter of Zabou Breitman and sister of Antonin Chalon.
Marie-Jo Zarb is a French lyricist, director and producer.
The prix Contrepoint is a French literary award established in 1971 by a group of young French novelists and journalists. Each year a French-speaking novelist is selected.
Marie-Annick Bellon, usually known as Yannick Bellon,, was a French film director, editor and screenwriter. Initially known for her documentary work, in 1972 she made her first feature film, Quelque part quelqu’un, presenting contemporary views of Paris. She went on to make several more feature films, including L'amour violé with its feminist insights in 1978 and Les Enfants du désordre in 1989, evoking the difficulties a drug addict experiences when trying to return to normal life.
I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere is a French film directed by Arnaud Viard released in 2019 with an adapted screenplay from Anna Gavalda's homonymous collection of twelve short stories published in 1999, it was awarded the Prix Contrepoint in 2001.
