Maurice Georges Dantec was a French-born Canadian science fiction writer and musician.
Charles Sorel, sieur de Souvigny was a French novelist and general writer.
The Prix Jean Vigo is an award in the French cinema given annually since 1951 to a French film director, in homage to Jean Vigo. Since 1960, the award has been given to both a director of a feature film and to a director of a short film. The award is usually given to a young director, for their independent spirit and stylistic originality.
Benoît Magimel is a French actor. He was 14 when he appeared in his first film, and has starred in a variety of roles in French cinema. At age 16, Magimel left school to pursue acting as a career. In 2001, he won the Best Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival for his role in Michael Haneke's The Piano Teacher. He also starred in Claude Chabrol's La Demoiselle d'honneur.
Dionysos is a French pop band that originated in Valence, Drôme, in 1993; their formation took place at their lycée. The group presents songs in both French and English and has produced six studio albums. They are particularly recognized in France for their surrealism and eccentricity.
François Bon is a French writer and translator.
Laurent Genefort is a French science fiction writer. He studied literature at the Sorbonne. He has been writing SF since 1988, with around 50 novels and 40 short stories to his credit, including the "Omale" cycle, his most famous work. He also has written fantasy cycles : "Alaet" and "Hordes". He won his first Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire in 1995 for Arago.
Mathias Malzieu is the lead singer of the French band Dionysos, which he co-founded in 1993 when he lived in Valence in Drôme (Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes). Three of his schoolfriends, Eric Serra Tosio, Michael Ponton and Guillaume Garidel, were among the band's original members.
Francis Lacassin was a French journalist, editor, writer, screenplay writer and essayist.
Eugène Green is an American-born French filmmaker and dramatist. He is notable as an educator, training a generation of young actors in the revival of French baroque theatre technique and declamation.
Barthélemy Mercier de Saint-Léger was a French abbot and librarian.
Camille de Toledo is a French writer and a visual artist.
Zineb El Rhazoui, known mononymously as Zineb, is a Moroccan-French journalist. She was a columnist for the Paris-based satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo from 2011 to 2017, but was in Morocco during the Charlie Hebdo shooting on 7 January 2015.
Hédi Kaddour is a French poet and novelist.
The grand prix de la Critique littéraire was created in 1948 by Robert André. It is awarded each year by the French PEN club to a literary essay. Chaired by Joël Schmidt, its jury is now made up of Jean Blot, Jean-Luc Despax, Jean-Claude Lamy, Daniel Leuwers, Jean Orizet, Laurence Paton, Antoine Spire and Patrick Tudoret. Since its creation, it has rewarded many leading authors and intends to promote a literary criticism of quality and, quite simply, literature.
Hubert Nyssen was a Belgian-French writer, publisher and founder of the Éditions Actes Sud.
The Frozen Dead is a French mystery thriller television series from channel M6, set in the French Pyrenees. The six-episode series is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Bernard Minier.
Rendez-Vous is a post-punk French band from Paris, France, formed in 2012.
Andrea Picci is a conceptual artist. His work analyses the profound quest for self-identity and its construction through the virtualization of our society.
Laurent Obertone is a French writer and journalist. He has written polemical books which the French media describes as reactionary. His first book, La France Orange mécanique, became a bestseller in 2013. He is known for his novel trilogy Guérilla (2016–2022), which is about civil war in France.
