Elisa Brune was a Belgian writer and journalist. She held a doctorate in environmental science.
François Bon, born on 22 May 1953 in Luçon, is a French writer and translator.
Shumona Sinha, also spelled Sumana Sinha;, is a naturalised French writer born in Calcutta, West Bengal, India, who lives in France.
Madeleine Monette is a Canadian novelist, short story writer, and poet from Quebec.
Francine Caron is a French writer and poet.
Maïssa Bey is the nom de plume of Samia Benameur, an Algerian educator and writer.
Louise Dupré is a Quebec poet and novelist.
Scholastique Mukasonga is a French-Rwandan author born in the former Gikongoro province of Rwanda. In 2012, She won the prix Renaudot and the prix Ahmadou-Kourouma for her book Our Lady of the Nile. In addition to being a finalist for the International Dublin Literary Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Mukasonga was rewarded in 2014 with the Seligman Prize against racism and intolerance and in 2015 with the prize Société des gens de lettres. She currently resides in Normandy.
Pierre Senges is a French writer. His work includes sixteen books, numerous essays published in literary journals, and over twenty-five plays for radio.
Maggy de Coster is a Haitian-born writer living in France. Until 1987, she wrote under her birth name Margareth Lizaire and is also known as Margareth Lizaire de Coster.
Irène Stecyk is a Belgian writer.
The Prix Renée Vivien is an annual French literary prize which is awarded to poets who write in French. Dedicated to the British poet Renée Vivien, the eponymous prize was first initiated in 1935, and continued intermittently by three different patrons, each with their own vision. First patron was Hélène de Zuylen de Nyevelt de Haar, followed by Natalie Clifford Barney in 1949 then more latterly and currently ongoing from 1994 with Claude Evrard. From each patron, the naming of the award after Renée Vivien was an act of remembrance. Nonetheless, women's poetry, feminist literature and the memories of romantic entanglement with the honoured poet have been inspiring on the first two patrons, who were more alike in their approach to awarding poets, while the heritage of Renée Vivien's style in contemporary poetry interested more Claude Evrard.
Gérard Pussey is a French writer and novelist.
Jakuta Alikavazovic is a French writer. Her debut novel Corps volatils was awarded the prix Goncourt du premier roman. In 2021, her latest novel Night As It Falls was published in the United Kingdom by Faber & Faber.
Thomas B. Reverdy is a French novelist.
Elvire Murail is a French writer, mainly author of books for youth under the pen name Moka. The daughter of poet Gérard Murail, she is the younger sister of writers Marie-Aude and Lorris Murail, and composer Tristan Murail.
Catherine Cessac is a French musicologist and music publisher.
Douna Loup is a Swiss writer.
Annie Hausen, known by her pen name Catherine Paysan, was a French writer. She won the Grand prix de littérature de la SGDL for her lifetime’s writing.
Germaine Acremant was a French novelist and playwright. Her best-known work is her first novel Ces dames aux chapeaux verts, a satire of provincial life published in 1921. The Académie Française awarded her the Montyon Prize in 1940 and the Prix Alice-Louis Barthou in 1943.
