Michel Tremblay, CQ is a French Canadian novelist and playwright. He was born in Montreal, Quebec, where he grew up in the French-speaking neighbourhood of Plateau Mont-Royal; at the time of his birth, a neighbourhood with a working-class character and joual dialect - something that would heavily influence his work. Tremblay's first professionally produced play, Les Belles-Sœurs, was written in 1965 and premiered at the Théâtre du Rideau Vert on August 28, 1968. It transformed the old guard of Canadian theatre and introduced joual to the mainstream. It stirred up controversy by portraying the lives of working-class women and attacking the strait-laced, deeply religious society of mid-20th century Quebec.
Octave Mirbeau was a French novelist, art critic, travel writer, pamphleteer, journalist and playwright, who achieved celebrity in Europe and great success among the public, whilst still appealing to the literary and artistic avant-garde with highly transgressive novels that explored violence, abuse and psychological detachment. His work has been translated into 30 languages.
Michel Houellebecq is a French author, known for his novels, poems and essays, as well as an occasional actor, filmmaker and singer.
François Cheng is a Chinese-born French academician, writer, poet and calligrapher. He is the author of essays, novels, collections of poetry and books on art written in the French language, and the translator of some of the great French poets into Chinese.
Jacques-Pierre Amette is a French writer. In 2003 his novel Brecht's Mistress won the Prix Goncourt. He has been a correspondent for The New York Times and a journalist for several French newspapers.
Fantastique is a French term for a literary and cinematic genre that overlaps with science fiction, horror, and fantasy.
Philippe Sollers is a French writer and critic. In 1960 he founded the avant garde literary journal Tel Quel, which was published by Le Seuil and ran until 1982. Sollers then created the journal L'Infini, published first by Denoel, then by Gallimard with Sollers remaining as sole editor.
François Bon, born on 22 May 1953 in Luçon, is a French writer and translator.
Patrick Besson is a French writer and journalist.
Anne Cuneo was a Swiss journalist, novelist, theatre and film director and screenwriter.
The grand prix de l'Imaginaire, until 1992 the grand prix de la science-fiction française, is a French literary award for speculative fiction, established in 1972 by the writer Jean-Pierre Fontana as part of the science fiction convention of Clermont-Ferrand.
Fabrizio Calvi was a French investigative journalist who specialized in cases involving organized crime and the secret services. He worked as a writer and journalist and was the author of several films. He wrote more than 20 books and 40 films, including Série noire au Credit Lyonnais, L’orchestre noir, Les routes de la terreur 911 and Elf, une afrique sous influence, all of which were broadcast by Arte.
Alain Nadaud was a French novelist, writer and diplomat. He was born in Paris and studied literature at Nanterre, obtaining a master's degree. Nadaud then taught literature abroad, in Nouakchott, Mauritania and in Basra, Iraq. After completing a doctorate, he went abroad again to teach French in Kwara state in Nigeria. Back in Paris, he taught philosophy until 1985.
Édouard Brasey is a French novelist, essayist, scriptwriter and story-teller born on 25 March 1954. Author of more than seventy works, many of which have been translated into English, Russian, Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian. He specialises in the themes of the esoteric, fables, legends and fantasy. He won a prize of Imaginales in 2006 for La Petite Encyclopédie du Merveilleux, and a prize Merlin in 2009 for his novel La Malédiction de l'Anneau. Subsequently, he has become essentially a novelist, notably published by Calmann-Lévy. His historical-esoteric thriller that was published in 2013, Le Dernier Pape, anticipated the abdication of Benoît XVI.
Alain Blottière is a French writer
Bernard Lamarche-Vadel was a French writer, poet, art critic and collector.
Marcel Schneider was a French writer, laureate of numerous literary awards.
Jean-Marie Pontaut is a French investigative journalist, working for the daily L'Express, after a start and a return trip to Le Point.
Jack Palmer is a cartoon character created in 1974 by René Pétillon. He is a goofy private detective. His satirical adventures touch various social subjects: politics, the media, the mafia, the jet set, etc.
David Homel is an American-Canadian writer and literary translator. He is most noted as a two-time winner of the Governor General's Award for French to English translation, winning the award at the 1995 Governor General's Awards for Why Must a Black Writer Write About Sex?, his translation of Dany Laferrière's Cette grenade dans la main du jeune nègre est-elle une arme ou un fruit?, and alongside Fred A. Reed at the 2001 Governor General's Awards for Fairy Ring, their translation of Martine Desjardins' Le Cercle de Clara.
