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Josyane Savigneau (born 14 July 1951) is a French journalist and writer for Le Monde .
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Josyane Savigneau (born 14 July 1951) is a French journalist and writer for Le Monde .
Savigneau was born in Châtellerault, France.
She became editor-in-chief of Le Monde des Livres , editorial subdivision of Le Monde (2005).
She has written three biographies – on Marguerite Yourcenar, [1] Carson McCullers, and Juliette Gréco – as well as an auto-biography.
She is a supporter of the paedophile writings of Gabriel Matzneff, whose book, entitled The Under 16s and other works gave graphic descriptions and mentioned children as young as eight, and she dismissed the scandal as a “witch-hunt”. [2]
Marguerite Yourcenar was a Belgian-born French novelist and essayist who became a US citizen in 1947. Winner of the Prix Femina and the Erasmus Prize, she was the first woman elected to the Académie Française, in 1980.
The Member of the Wedding is a 1946 novel by Southern writer Carson McCullers. It took McCullers five years to complete, although she interrupted the work for a few months to write the novella The Ballad of the Sad Café.
Carson McCullers was an American novelist, short-story writer, playwright, essayist, and poet. Her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940), explores the spiritual isolation of misfits and outcasts in a small town of the Southern United States. Her other novels have similar themes and most are set in the Deep South.
Juliette Gréco was a French singer and actress. Her best known songs are "Paris Canaille", "La Javanaise" and "Déshabillez-moi" (1967). She often sang tracks with lyrics written by French poets such as Jacques Prévert and Boris Vian, as well as singers like Jacques Brel and Charles Aznavour. Her 60-year career came to an end in 2015 when she began her last worldwide tour titled "Merci".
Annie Thérèse Blanche Ernaux is a French writer who was awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory". Her literary work, mostly autobiographical, maintains close links with sociology.
Élisabeth Badinter is a French philosopher, author and historian.
Jeanne Galzy (1883–1977), born Louise Jeanne Baraduc, was a French novelist and biographer from Montpellier. She was a long-time member of the jury for the Prix Femina. Largely forgotten today, she was known as a regional author, but also wrote three novels early in her career that explore lesbian topics; she has been referred to as one of the "pioneers in the writing of lesbian desire and despair."
Agnès Desarthe is a French novelist, children's writer and translator.
Florence Noiville, a French author and journalist, is a long time staff writer for Le Monde and editor of foreign fiction for Le Monde des Livres, the literary supplement of Le Monde.
Hortense Flexner King was an American poet, playwright, and professor.
Jean-Claude Lamy was a French journalist, writer and publisher.
Dominique Sigaud is a French journalist, essayist and novelist.
Grace Marion Frick was a translator and researcher for her lifelong partner French writer Marguerite Yourcenar. Grace Frick taught languages at US colleges and was the second academic dean to be appointed to Hartford Junior College.
Jeanne de Vietinghoff was a Belgian writer who published several books on ethical, mystical and religious topics. She was the mother of the painter and philosopher Egon von Vietinghoff.
Gérard Jouannest was a French pianist and composer.
Orly Chap is a French singer, songwriter and composer known for having a raspy and expressive voice. Her lyrical approach has been likened to disjointed poetry, while her musical style has been described as a sophisticated mixture of "New Chanson", blues, and acoustic rock.
Sophie Bessis is a Tunisian-born French historian, journalist, researcher, and feminist author. She has written numerous works in French, Spanish, and English on development in the Maghreb and the Arab world, as well as the situation of women denouncing the identity imprisonment to which they are subjected. She is the recipient of the Paris Liège literary prize and was honored as Commandeur of the Order of the Republic.
Nina Lazavrevna Gourfinkel or Gurfinkel was a Russian Jewish writer living in France. During World War II she worked to provide housing for Jews and other displaced people in the Zone libre. She wrote on Russian theatre and literature, with translations and biographies of Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Stanislavski, Gogol, Lenin, Maxim Gorky and Chekhov.
Michèle Sarde, is a French writer, born in 1939. She taught French literature and culture, together with gender and intercultural studies at Georgetown University, Washington D.C., from 1970 to 2000. She is now a Professor emerita at that university and lives in Chile and France.
Anne Berest is a French writer and actress.
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