Sophie Divry, (born 1979 in Montpellier) is a French writer.
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Between 2004 and 2010, she was a journalist at the monthly La Décroissance . Since 2016, she has been a participant on the radio program Des Papous dans la tête on France Culture.
Sophie Divry, (born 1979 in Montpellier) is a French writer.
Between 2004 and 2010, she was a journalist at the monthly La Décroissance . Since 2016, she has been a participant on the radio program Des Papous dans la tête on France Culture.
Jacques Tardi is a French comic artist. He is often credited solely as Tardi.
Louis Guilloux was a Breton writer born in Saint-Brieuc, Brittany, where he lived throughout his life. He is known for his Social Realist novels describing working class life and political struggles in the mid-twentieth century. His best-known book is Le Sang noir, which has been described as a "prefiguration of Sartre's La Nausée."
Alain Mabanckou is a novelist, journalist, poet, and academic, a French citizen born in the Republic of the Congo, he is currently a Professor of Literature at UCLA. He is best known for his novels and non-fiction writing depicting the experience of contemporary Africa and the African diaspora in France. He is among the best known and most successful writers in the French language, and one of the best known African writers in France. In some circles in Paris he is known as "the Samuel Beckett of Africa".
The Grasset Editions is a French publishing house founded in 1907 by Bernard Grasset (1881–1955).
Anna Szatkowska was a World War II member of the Polish Home Army which she joined at the age of 16 to help in liberating Warsaw from German occupation. She served as first-aider. Sixty years later, she decided to describe her experience in a book, La Maison brulée.
Vera Michalski-Hoffmann is a Swiss billionaire businesswoman, significant shareholder in Roche Holding and publisher. She is the president of several publishing houses in Switzerland, France and Poland, grouped together in a holding company, Libella SA, based in Lausanne. She founded the Jan Michalski Foundation in Montricher.
Metin Arditi, born 2 February 1945 in Ankara, is a French-speaking Swiss writer of Turkish Sephardi origin.
Éric Neuhoff is a French novelist and journalist. He debuted in 1982 a journalist at Le Quotidien de Paris and used a style nicknamed "néo-hussard", after the Hussards movement of the 1950s. He thus became associated with writers such as Denis Tillinac, Patrick Besson and Didier Van Cauwelaert, who debuted around the same time and used a similar style. He received the 1990 Roger Nimier Prize, and has received awards such as the Prix des Deux Magots, Prix Interallié and Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française.
Laurent Mauvignier is a French writer.
Stéphane Denis is a French journalist and writer.
Sophie Adriansen is a French writer, a member of the Société des gens de lettres and of the "Charte des auteurs et des illustrateurs jeunesse".
The prix Wepler is a French literary award established in 1998 at the initiative of the Abbesses Bookshop, with the support of the La Poste Foundation, and the Brasserie Wepler and which distinguishes, in the month of November, a contemporary author. It works with a rotating jury system.
Claude Brami is a French writer, winner of the 1982 Prix des libraires. During the 1970s, he wrote a dozen detective novels under the pseudonyms Christopher Diable and Julien Sauvage.
Françoise Cloarec is a French writer, painter and psychoanalyst.
The two Henkin brothers,Evgeny and Yakov(December 2, 1903 – December 13, 1941), were significant early 20th century amateur street and documentary photographers who primarily recorded the daily life of, respectively, Berlin, Germany and Leningrad, Russia, in the late 1920s and 1930s, during the interwar years. Their photographs, mostly never printed in their lifetimes and kept as negatives, were re-discovered by the descendants of Yakov Henkin in the late 2000s. This collection, known as the Henkin Brothers Archive, consists of around 7000 frames of photography.
Patrick Autréaux is a French writer who has held appointments as a writer-in-residence at Boston University (2018–2019) and a visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2018). After training in medicine and anthropology, he practiced as an emergency-room psychiatrist in Paris and started writing poetry and contemporary art reviews before publishing fiction.
Paolo Woods is a Dutch–Canadian photographer, director, curator and teacher. He mainly works on long-term projects combining photography with investigative journalism. He is a contributing photographer for National Geographic and his work is regularly published worldwide in magazines such as Time, Le Monde, Geo, Internazionale, Newsweek, etc.
Georgette LeBlanc is a Canadian poet and translator, most noted for serving as the Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate in 2018 and 2019.
Jeanne Faivre d'Arcier is a French novelist, short-story writer and writer of children's stories.
Cécile Wajsbrot is a French-Jewish writer, novelist, essayist, translator and journalist. Wajsbrot studied comparative literature in Paris and then worked as a French teacher and radio editor. She has translated books from English and German into French, e.g. by Virginia Woolf, Suzan Wicks, Charles Olson, Gert Ledig and Wolfgang Büscher.
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