Shawiya,or Shawiya Berber,also spelt Chaouïa,is a Zenati Berber language spoken in Algeria by the Shawiya people. The language's primary speech area is the Awras Mountains in Eastern Algeria and the surrounding areas,including parts of Western Tunisia,including Batna,Khenchela,Sétif,Oum El Bouaghi,Souk Ahras,Tébessa and the northern part of Biskra. It is closely related to the Shenwa language of Central Algeria.
Guy Goffette was a Belgian-born poet and writer. Goffette published his first book of poems in 1969. After then he worked as an editor at the publishing company Gallimard. Goffette's poetry has been compared to Verlaine –the contemporary French poet Yves Bonnefoy remarked
Goffette is an heir to Verlaine. A poet who very courageously has decided to remain faithful to his own personal life,in its humblest moments. He keeps things simple,he is marvelously able to capture the emotions and desires common to us all. Goffette is without question one of the best poets of the present moment in France.
Joseph Héliodore Sagesse Vertu Garcin de Tassy was a French orientalist.
Abdellatif Laâbi is a Moroccan poet,journalist,novelist,playwright,translator and political activist.
Sir Michael Edwards,OBE is an Anglo-French poet and academic.
Andrédu Bouchet was a French poet.
Claude Esteban was a French poet.
Alfred Jeanroy was a French linguist.
Stephen Romer,FRSL is an English poet,academic and literary critic.
Séraphin Couvreur was a French Jesuit missionary to China,sinologist,and creator of the EFEO Chinese transcription. The system devised by Couvreur of the École française d'Extrême-Orient was used in most of the French-speaking world to transliterate Chinese until the middle of the 20th century,after what it was gradually replaced by pinyin.
Jean Portante is a Luxembourgish writer who resides in Paris. He has written novels,stories,plays,journalistic articles and poetry,and has been widely translated.
Salah Stétié was a Lebanese writer and poet who wrote in the French language. He also served in various diplomatic positions for Lebanon in countries such as Morocco and France. Although his mother tongue was Arabic,Stetie chose to write in French.
Liliane Wouters was a Belgian poet,playwright,translator,anthologist and essayist.
Francine Caron is a French writer and poet.
Édouard Paul Dhorme was a French Assyriologist,Semitologist and translator of the Bible.
De l'un au multiple:Traductions du chinois vers les langues européennes Translations from Chinese into European Languages is an academic book in French and English with essays about translations of Chinese into European languages. It was published in 1999 by the Éditions de la MSH,Fondation Maison des sciences de l'homme,and edited by Viviane Alleton and Michael Lackner. The introduction states that the purpose of this work is to examine specific issues in translation from Chinese to European languages and from the Chinese culture to Western cultures,instead of promoting a new theory regarding translation.
Pierre Torreilles was a French writer,poet and editor.
Jean-Paul Daoust is a Canadian poet. He won the Governor General's Award for French-language poetry at the 1990 Governor General's Awards for Les Cendres bleues.
Pierre-Yves Lambert is a French linguist and scholar of Celtic studies. He is a researcher at the CNRS and a lecturer at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Celtic linguistics and philology. Lambert is the director of the journal Études Celtiques.
Michel Zink is a French writer,medievalist,philologist,and professor of French literature,particularly that of the Middle Ages. He is the Permanent Secretary of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres,a title he has held since 2011,and was elected to the Académie française in 2017. In addition to his academic work,he has also written historical crime novels,one of which continues the story of Arsène Lupin.
