Nancy Louise Huston, OC is a Canadian-born novelist and essayist who writes primarily in French and translates her own works into English.
Clotilde Marie Pascale di Savoia also known as Princess Clotilde of Savoy is a French actress. She is married to Emanuele Filiberto di Savoia, a member of the House of Savoy and the grandson of Umberto II, the last king of Italy.
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.
Marie-Josée Croze is a Canadian actress. She also holds French citizenship, which she obtained in December 2012.
Maurice Georges Dantec was a French-born Canadian science fiction writer and musician.
Jean-Claude Izzo was a French poet, playwright, screenwriter, and novelist who achieved sudden fame in the mid-1990s with the publication of his three neo-noir crime novels Total Chaos, Chourmo, and Solea, featuring as protagonist ex-cop Fabio Montale, and set in the author's native city of Marseille. All have been translated into English by Howard Curtis.
Isild Le Besco is a French actress and filmmaker. She is of French and Algerian descent on her mother's side, and Vietnamese and Breton on her father's.
Simon Njami is a writer and an independent curator, lecturer, art critic and essayist.
Louise Bédard is a Canadian dancer, choreographer and teacher who is active on the contemporary dance.
Hélène Dorion, is a Canadian poet, and writer.
Kitty Crowther is a Belgian illustrator and writer of children's books. For her career contribution to "children's and young adult literature in the broadest sense" she won the 2010 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award from the Swedish Arts Council, the biggest prize in children's literature.
Carl Norac is a Walloon Belgian author of children's books and poetry.
Sergine Andre (‘Djinn’), born in the Artibonite region of Haiti, is an artist who has lived and worked in Brussels since 2010. Her work draws from the magical tradition of her home region and is situated within the country's abstract expressionist avant-garde.
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.
Pierre Jodlowski is a French composer of mixed music. He works in particular on intermediality, music informatics, staging, image and interactive arts.
Pascale Ferran is a French film director and screenwriter. In 2007, her film Lady Chatterley won five César Awards including Best Film, Best Cinematography and Best Adaptation. Her 2014 film Bird People was selected to compete in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. Ferran also wrote the screenplay for The Red Turtle, an animated film by Michael Dudok de Wit, that competed in the Hawaii International Film Festival on 12 November 2016.
The Prix Mystère de la critique was established in 1972 by Mystère magazine, published by Éditions OPTA from 1948 to 1976, and is one of the oldest French awards for a detective novel. It continues to be awarded each year by its founder, Georges Rieben and his team, and has the characteristic of having survived the demise of the magazine.
Isabelle Hausser is a French novelist and translator.
Élisa Servier is a French actor.
Olivier Barlet is a French journalist, translator, film critic and researcher on African cinema and its diasporas.
