Ambroise Paul Toussaint Jules Valéry was a French poet, essayist, and philosopher. In addition to his poetry and fiction, his interests included aphorisms on art, history, letters, music, and current events. Valéry was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 12 different years.
Akhenaten, also spelled Echnaton, Akhenaton,, was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh reigning c. 1353–1336 or 1351–1334 BC, the tenth ruler of the Eighteenth Dynasty. Before the fifth year of his reign, he was known as Amenhotep IV.
Smenkhkare was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh of unknown background who lived and ruled during the Amarna Period of the 18th Dynasty. Smenkhkare was husband to Meritaten, the daughter of his likely co-regent, Akhenaten. Very little is known of Smenkhkare for certain because later kings sought to erase the Amarna Period from history. Because of this, perhaps no one from the Amarna Interlude has been the subject of so much speculation as Smenkhkare.
Thutmose II was the fourth Pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt. His reign is generally dated from 1493 to 1479 BC. His body was found in the Deir el-Bahri Cache above the Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut and can be viewed today in the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization in Cairo.
Jules Régis Debray is a French philosopher, journalist, former government official and academic. He is known for his theorization of mediology, a critical theory of the long-term transmission of cultural meaning in human society, and for associating with Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara in Bolivia in 1967 and advancing Salvador Allende's presidency in Chile in the early 1970s. He returned to France in 1973 and later held various official posts in the French government.
Éditions Gallimard (French: [edisjɔ̃ ɡalimaːʁ]; formerly Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française and Librairie Gallimard is one of the leading French book publishers. In 2003 it and its subsidiaries published 1,418 titles.
Sylvie Germain is a French author.
Philippe Jaccottet was a Swiss Francophone poet and translator.
Jean Starobinski was a Swiss literary critic.
Ankhkheperure-Merit-Neferkheperure/Waenre/Aten Neferneferuaten was a name used to refer to a female pharaoh who reigned toward the end of the Amarna Period during the Eighteenth Dynasty. Her gender is confirmed by feminine traces occasionally found in the name and by the epithet Akhet-en-hyes, incorporated into one version of her nomen cartouche. She is distinguished from the king Smenkhkare who used the same throne name, Ankhkheperure, by the presence of epithets in both cartouches. She is suggested to have been either Meritaten or, more likely, Nefertiti. If this person is Nefertiti ruling as sole pharaoh, it has been theorized by Egyptologist and archaeologist Dr. Zahi Hawass that her reign was marked by the fall of Amarna and relocation of the capital back to the traditional city of Thebes.
The prix Guillaume Apollinaire is a French poetry prize first awarded in 1941. It was named in honour of French writer Guillaume Apollinaire. It annually recognizes a collection of poems for its originality and modernity.
Sydney Hervé Aufrère is a French Egyptologist, archaeologist, and director of research at CNRS.
The Prix Maison de la Presse is an annual French literary prize, established in 1970 by the Syndicat national des dépositaires de presse (SNDP) and Gabriel Cantin. Until 2005 it was known as Prix des Maisons de la Presse and given out in the two categories Novel (Roman) and Non-Fiction (Document), after which the name was changed and the categories merged into one.
Jean Lambert-wild is a theatre-maker and theatre director born in 1972 in Réunion. He is the artistic director of Theatre de l'Union – Centre Dramatique National du Limousin, and the director of L'Académie de l'Union, Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Théâtre du Limousin. He resigned from his position in November 2020 after facing accusations of mistreatment and harassment from the theater staff.
Philippe Vilain is a French man of letters, writer, essayist, doctor of modern literature of the University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle.
Frédéric Jacques Temple was a French poet and writer. His work includes poems, novels, travel stories and essays.
Makis Solomos is a Franco-Greek musicologist specialising in contemporary music and particularly in the work of Iannis Xenakis. He is also one the specialists of Adorno's thought. His work focuses on the issue of sound ecology and decay. He has published articles and books and participates in meetings and symposia. In 2005, he also participated in the creation of the magazine "Filigranes" which aims to broaden the field of musicology.
Catherine Gide was a French writer and editor. She was the daughter of André Gide and Elisabeth van Rysselberghe, daughter of Théo van Rysselberghe.
Élisabeth van Rysselberghe was a Belgian translator. She was the daughter of Belgian painter Théo van Rysselberghe.
Pierre Herbart was a French novelist, essayist, and journalist.
