Pierre Hanot (born 25 March 1952, Metz) is a French novelist, visual artist and musician.
Hanot has performed over 1000 concerts, including more than 200 in most French prisons. He reported this experience in his first work, Rock'n taules published in 2005. Five of his novels have already been published including the thriller Les Clous du fakir, which was awarded the 2009 prix Erckmann-Chatrian. [1]
Gilles Vigneault is a Québécois poet, publisher, singer-songwriter, and Quebec nationalist and sovereigntist. Two of his songs are considered by many to be Quebec's unofficial anthems: "Mon pays" and "Gens du pays", and his line Mon pays ce n'est pas un pays, c'est l'hiver became a proverb in Quebec. Vigneault is a Grand Officer of the National Order of Quebec, Knight of the Legion of Honour, and Officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
Pierre Pelot, is a French science fiction writer. Born on 13 November 1945, in Saint-Maurice-sur-Moselle, Vosges, France.
Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert is a commune in the Hérault department in the Occitanie region in southern France. Situated where the Gellone river's narrow valley meets the steep-sided gorge of the river Hérault, Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert is essentially a medieval village located on the Chemin de St-Jacques pilgrim route to Santiago de Compostella.
Yves Philippe Avit Nat was a French pianist and composer.
Georges Lautner was a French film director and screenwriter, known primarily for his comedies created in collaboration with screenwriter Michel Audiard.
Boris Cyrulnik is a French doctor, ethologist, neurologist, and psychiatrist.
Michel Berto was a French actor. He was married to the actresses Juliet Berto and Marie Berto. His body was found on 3 January 1996, hence the exact date of his death is uncertain.
André Rouyer was a French film actor. He appeared in 60 films between 1956 and 1994.
Geneviève Fraisse is a French feminist philosopher.
Michel Bulteau is a French poet, essayist, occasional musician and experimental filmmaker, born on 8 October 1949 in Arcueil.
André Billy was a French writer.
Pierrette Pernot, better known professionally as Catherine Arley, is a French novelist and former actress. She lives in Paris in the 16th arrondissement.
Pierre Lemaitre is a Prix Goncourt-winning French author and a screenwriter, internationally renowned for the crime novels featuring the fictional character Commandant Camille Verhœven.
The Prix du Quai des Orfèvres is an annual French literature award created in 1946 by Jacques Catineau. It goes to an unpublished manuscript for a French-language police novel. The selected novel is then published by a major French publishing house, since 1965 Fayard. The jury is led by the chief of the Prefecture of Police of Paris. The name of the award refers to the headquarters of the Paris police, located at 36, quai des Orfèvres.
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.
Alain Blottière is a French writer
Jean-Pierre Milovanoff is a French writer, laureate of several literary prizes
Jean-Paul Delfino is a French writer and screenwriter.
Timothée Picard is a French academic and music critic.
Jeanne Faivre d'Arcier is a French novelist, short-story writer and writer of children's stories.