Salvat Etchart (1924 - 1985 Bordeaux) was a French writer, winner of the 1967 Prix Renaudot.
He moved to Martinique in 1955. He was critical of neo-colonial society. He taught French literature in Quebec, beginning in 1970.
The Prix Théophraste-Renaudot or Prix Renaudot is a French literary award.
The Mercure de France was originally a French gazette and literary magazine first published in the 17th century, but after several incarnations has evolved as a publisher, and is now part of the Éditions Gallimard publishing group.
Annie Saumont was a French short story writer and English to French translator.
Michel Droit was a French novelist and journalist. He was the father of the photographer Éric Droit (1954–2007).
Didier Decoin is a French screenwriter and writer awarded the Prix Goncourt in 1977.
Alain Absire is a French writer, and winner of the Prix Femina, 1984, for L'Égal de Dieu.
Nicolas Bréhal was a French novelist and literary critic.
Jean-Marc Roberts was a French editor, novelist, and screenwriter.
Suzanne Prou was a French novelist. She won the 1973 Prix Renaudot, for The Bernardini Terrace. She is buried in Montparnasse Cemetery.
Jacques Perry was a French novelist.
Christopher Frank was a British-born French writer, screenwriter, and film director. He won the 1972 Prix Renaudot for his novel La Nuit américaine that served the basis for Andrzej Zulawski's film That Most Important Thing: Love.
Pierre Silvain was a French writer and playwright.
The Prix Jean-Freustié is a French literary prize created in 1987 by Christiane Teurlay-Freustié, second wife of writer and publisher Jean Freustie (1914–1983) to which it pays tribute, and his friends Nicole and Frédéric Vitoux as well as writer Bernard Frank. It rewards a French-speaking writer for a prose work: novel, short stories, autobiography, biography or essay. The prize is awarded annually.
Jean-Claude Guillebaud is a French writer, essayist, lecturer and journalist.
Jérôme Garcin is a French journalist and writer. He heads the cultural section of the Nouvel Observateur, produces and hosts the radio program Le Masque et la Plume on France Inter, and is a member of the reading committee of the Comédie-Française.
Simone Gallimard was a French editor, leader of the Mercure de France.
Pierre Fisson,, was a French writer, laureate of the Prix Renaudot in 1948.
Lionel Duroy de Suduiraut is a French writer and journalist born in Bizerte (Tunisia) into an impoverished family of aristocratic origin who long shared extreme right-wing ideas. His youth in this environment left a profound mark on him and was the breeding ground for many of his books. . Lionel Duroy was first a delivery man, a courier, a worker, then a journalist at Libération and at L'événement du jeudi. Since the publication of his first novel in 1990, he has devoted himself entirely to writing novels with an essentially autobiographical content. He is happy to talk about his mother, the family trauma linked to his father's war wounds and the legal expulsion of his family from their home in 1955 - following a lack of solidarity from the rest of the family.
Camille Bourniquel was a French poet, novelist and painter.
Régine Detambel is a French writer. She was born in 1963. She published her first book in 1990, and has written prolifically ever since. Her works have been published primarily by Julliard, Le Seuil and Gallimard. She has won the Prix Anna de Noailles, the Alain Fournier Prize, and the Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres.
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