Marie-Claude Sandrin (born December 1937, in Bordeaux) is a French writer.
Sandrin won the prix Cazes in 1967 for her first novel, La Forteresse de boue, published by Buchet/Chastel . [1] [2] Two other novels will be published by the same house: La Cendre d’un été (1971) and L’homme à chagrin (1980).
Several critics have highlighted relationships with Chateaubriand, Mauriac, Gracq, whom Marie-Claude Sandrin considers to be her "family".
Marie-Claude Sandrin also held a career in journalism and worked for twenty years in the Méridional , as well as in numerous magazines.
Jean Yanne was a French actor, screenwriter, producer, director and composer. In 1972, he won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor for his performance in the film We Won't Grow Old Together.
The Prix Théophraste-Renaudot or Prix Renaudot is a French literary award.
Nadine Trintignant is a French film director, producer, editor, screenwriter, and novelist. She is known for making films that surround the topic of family and relationships, such as Ça n'arrive qu'aux autres and L'été prochain. Her film Mon amour, mon amour was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 1967 Cannes Film Festival.
Bernard Bloch is a French actor and theatre director.
Marcel Moreau was a Belgian writer. He was born in Boussu, a town in the mining region of Borinage in Hainaut Province, into a working-class environment. He described it as "a pure cultural void" with "a total absence of any cultural reference point". He lost his father at the age of 15, and abandoned his studies a short time later. He worked in various trades before becoming an accountant's assistant in Brussels for the newspaper Le Peuple. In 1955 he became a proof-reader for the daily Le Soir.
Claude Dhotel, better known by his stage name C. Jérôme, was a French singer.
Jean Vautrin, real name Jean Herman, was a French writer, filmmaker and film critic.
Didier Decoin is a French screenwriter and writer awarded the Prix Goncourt in 1977.
The prix Guillaume Apollinaire is a French poetry prize first awarded in 1941. It was named in honour of French writer Guillaume Apollinaire. It annually recognizes a collection of poems for its originality and modernity.
The Prix Dentan is a Swiss literary award created in 1984 and named for Professor Michel Dentan.
Louis Gardet was a French Roman Catholic priest and historian. As an author he was an expert in Islamic culture and sociology who had a sympathetic view of Islam as a religion. He considered himself "a Christian philosopher of cultures". Islam's men, Mentality of Approaches is one of his best and most widely read works.
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.
Brasserie Lipp is a brasserie located at 151 Boulevard Saint-Germain in the 6th arrondissement of Paris. It sponsors an annual literary prize, the Prix Cazes, named for a previous owner.
The prix Erckmann-Chatrian is a literary award from Lorraine, awarded every year since 1925 in memory of the literary duo Erckmann-Chatrian. It rewards a written prose work by someone form Lorraine or about Lorraine. It is often nicknamed the "Goncourt lorrain". The jury consists of literary figures of the four Lorraine departments.
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.
Roger Rabiniaux was a French writer and poet.
Joël Egloff is a contemporary French writer and screenwriter.
Quatre petites prières de saint François d'Assise, FP 142 is a sacred choral work by Francis Poulenc for a cappella men's chorus, composed in 1948. Written on a request by Poulenc's relative who was a Franciscan friar, the work was premiered by the monks of Champfleury.
Jean-Philippe Blondel is a French novelist and high school English teacher. He was born in Troyes, about 200 km southwest of Paris, France.
Marie Holzman is a French sinologist, university professor of Chinese, writer, journalist and translator. Her research focuses on contemporary China and Chinese dissidents.