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.
The Prix Femina is a French literary prize created in 1904 by 22 writers for the magazine La Vie heureuse. The prize is decided each year by an exclusively female jury. They reward French-language works written in prose or verse, by both women and men. The winner is announced on the first Wednesday of November each year.
Emmanuel Carrère is a French author, screenwriter and film director.
This article is about French literature from the year 2000 to the present day.
Michel del Castillo born in 1933 in Madrid is a French writer.
Alain Absire is a French writer, and winner of the Prix Femina, 1984, for L'Égal de Dieu.
Patrick Lapeyre is a French writer, and winner of the Prix Femina, 2010, for his seventh novel, La vie est brève et le désir sans fin.
Jean-Louis Fournier is a French writer, and winner of the Prix Femina, 2008, for Où on va, papa?.
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.
Ananda Devi Nirsimloo-Anenden, also known as Ananda Devi, is a Mauritian author writing mainly in French. She is the 2024 recipient of the Neustadt Prize, known as the "American Nobel."
Mégret Christian, was a 20th-century French journalist and novelist, winner of the Prix Femina in 1957.
The prix Femina essai is a French literary prize awarded to an essay. Established in 1999, it replaced the prix Femina Vacaresco.
The Prix Femina étranger is a French literary award established in 1985. It is awarded annually to a foreign-language literary work translated into French.
Christophe Boltanski is a French journalist, writer and chronicler, laureate of the prix Femina 2015 for his novel La Cache.
Félix de Chazournes was a French writer, the winner of the 1938 Prix Femina.
Serge Groussard was a French journalist and writer, the son of colonel Georges Groussard and Véra Bernstein-Woolbrunn.
Simon Liberati is a French writer and journalist. For his novels, he has received the Prix de Flore (2009), Prix Femina (2011) and Prix Renaudot (2022).
Clara Dupont-Monod is a French journalist and woman of letters. She was awarded the Prix Femina in 2021.
Gérard Jarlot (1923–1966) was a French journalist, screenwriter and novelist, winner of the Prix Médicis in 1963.
Les Choses humaines is the eleventh novel by French author Karine Tuil, published by Éditions Gallimard on 22 August 2019. It was awarded the Prix Interallié and Prix Goncourt des lycéens. In 2021, the novel was adapted into a film of the same name. The novel has not yet received an English translation.
