Fernando Arrabal Terán is a Spanish playwright, screenwriter, film director, novelist, and poet. He was born in Melilla and settled in France in 1955. Regarding his nationality, Arrabal describes himself as "desterrado", or "half-expatriate, half-exiled".
Sophie Calle is a French writer, photographer, installation artist, and conceptual artist. Calle's work is distinguished by its use of arbitrary sets of constraints, and evokes the French literary movement known as Oulipo. Her work frequently depicts human vulnerability, and examines identity and intimacy. She is recognized for her detective-like tendency to follow strangers and investigate their private lives. Her photographic work often includes panels of text of her own writing.
Marie-José Benhalassa, known professionally as Marie-José Nat, was a French actress. Among her notable works in cinema were the sequel films Anatomy of a Marriage: My Days with Jean-Marc and Anatomy of a Marriage: My Days with Françoise (1963), directed by André Cayatte. In 1974, she received a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for her performance in the film Violins at the Ball.
Jean Duvignaud was a French novelist, sociologist and anthropologist. He was born in La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, on February 22, 1921.
Laurent Gaudé is a French writer.
Marcel Moreau was a Belgian writer. He was born in Boussu, a town in the mining region of Borinage in Hainaut Province, into a working-class environment. He described it as "a pure cultural void" with "a total absence of any cultural reference point". He lost his father at the age of 15, and abandoned his studies a short time later. He worked in various trades before becoming an accountant's assistant in Brussels for the newspaper Le Peuple. In 1955 he became a proof-reader for the daily Le Soir.
Sébastien Lapaque is a French writer.
Gérard de Cortanze is a French writer, essayist, translator and literary critic. He won the Prix Renaudot in 2002 for his historical novel Assam. He was made a chevalier of the Legion of Honour in 2009.
Lyonel Trouillot is a novelist and poet in French and Haitian Creole, a journalist and a professor of French and Creole literature in Port-au-Prince.
Barthélemy Imbert was an 18th-century French playwright, poet and novelist.
Marie-Dominique Lelièvre is a French writer and journalist.
Christian Gailly was a French writer.
Hélène Frappat is a French writer, translator and critic of cinema.
Dominique Sigaud is a French journalist, essayist and novelist.
Raphaël Jerusalmy is a French writer.
Frédéric Jacques Temple was a French poet and writer. His work includes poems, novels, travel stories and essays.
Timothée Picard is a French academic and music critic.
Suzanne Lafont is a French photographer.
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.
Yasmine Chami-Kettani is a Moroccan novelist. She won the Arab World Institute Prize, for her novel To Die is an Enchantment.
