Régine Deforges was a French author, editor, director, and playwright.
Pierre Bergounioux is a French writer. He won the 1986 Prix Alain-Fournier for his second novel, Ce pas et le suivant. And in 2002, he won the SGDL literary grand prize for his body of work.
Louis-Philippe Dalembert is a Haitian poet and novelist. He writes in both French and Haitian creole. His works have been translated into several languages. He now divides his home between Berlin, Paris and Port-au-Prince.
Antoine Bello is a French-American author born in Boston, Massachusetts, whose works have been widely translated. His novels touch on multiple subjects, such as the relation between reality and fiction, human cognition and journalism. He writes in French, his native tongue. He has been living in the greater New York Area since 2002.
Antonio D'Alfonso is a Canadian writer, editor, publisher and filmmaker, best known as the founder of Guernica Editions.
The Éditions Philippe Picquier are a publishing house created in 1986 and specialized in the publication of books coming from Far East, that is translated books which coming from China, Korea, Japan, Vietnam, India and Pakistan.
Vera Michalski-Hoffmann is a Swiss 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. Dedicated philanthropist, she also spearheaded the Jan Michalski Foundation in Montricher.
Born in 1973, near Paris, France, multimedia artist Stéphane Blanquet is a prolific figure in the contemporary art scene since the end of the 1980s.
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-Paul Kauffmann is a French journalist and writer, a former student of the École supérieure de journalisme de Lille.
The Éditions de l'Olivier are a French publishing house created by Olivier Cohen and located 96 Boulevard du Montparnasse, in the 14th arrondissement of Paris. Established in 1991, this company specializes in French and foreign literature.
Denis Emorine, born in 1956 near Paris, is a French poet, playwright, short-story writer, essayist and novelist.
Le Temps des cerises is a French publishing house founded in 1993 by 33 writers.
Patricia Reznikov is a Franco-American writer.
Léonor de Récondo is a French violinist and writer.
Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud is a French novelist and short story writer. He was awarded the Prix Renaudot in 1982 for the novel La Faculté des songes and the Prix Goncourt de la nouvelle in 2005 for Singe savant tabassé par deux clowns. He has been general secretary of the Prix Renaudot since 2010.
Hubert Nyssen was a Belgian-French writer, publisher and founder of the Éditions Actes Sud.
François Bott is a French author who after a long career as a journalist and literary critic became a writer of novels, one of which, Une minute d’absence (2001), won the Académie française's Prix de la Nouvelle. He continued as a literary critic, writing essays focused on other writers, especially Roger Vailland.
