Véronique Ovaldé est une écrivaine à l’imaginaire particulièrement vif. Le Sommeil des poissons (Le Seuil, 2000), Toutes choses scintillant (Éditions de l'Ampoule, 2002), Les Hommes en général me plaisent beaucoup (Actes Sud, 2003), Déloger l'animal (Actes Sud, 2005), Et mon cœur transparent (Éditions de l'Olivier, 2008): cinq romans ont suffi à imposer son univers singulier, en France mais aussi à l’étranger (nombreuses traductions). Elle a reçu la Bourse Goncourt du livre jeunesse avec l'illustratrice Joëlle Jolivet pour leur album, La Très Petite Zébuline (Actes Sud Junior, 2006). Elle participe régulièrement à des performances avec des artistes : production de multiples avec Françoise Quardon, performances avec Hervé Trioreau (Lieu Unique, Nantes, 2005), Louis Vermot (Correspondances de Manosque, 2005), lectures (festival d’Avignon, jardin des Doms, 2006). Elle est née en 1972 au Perreux-sur-Marne, travaille dans l'édition et vit à Paris avec ses deux enfants.

Agnès Martin-Lugand (born Saint-Malo) is a French writer of novels. A psychology major, she turned towards writing and published her first novel, Les gens heureux lisent et boivent du café (Happy People Read and Drink Coffee), as a self-edition via Amazon's Kindle platform on December 2012. Rapidly noticed by literary bloggers close to the self-publishing medium, she was approached by Florian Lafani, responsible for the digital development of Michel Lafon editions, proposing her to enter the traditional publishing world. Once the novel was among Michel Lafon's catalog, the publisher assured the translations to multiple European languages, particularly to Spanish, Italian, Polish and Turkish. Her second novel, Entre mes mains le bonheur se faufile, was published by the same company in June 2014.

Alexandra Lapierre has won international acclaim for her writing. Her works have been widely translated and she has received numerous awards, including the Honorary Award of the Association of American University Women. She earned an MFA degree in 1981 from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. The daughter of the writer Dominique Lapierre, she was brought up surrounded by books. At the Sorbonne in Paris, she learned how to research. And, she said, her studies at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles and the University of Southern California taught her how to tell a story, "something we have forgotten a bit in French literature today." She was voted Woman of Culture by the city of Rome, Italy, and has been nominated Chevalier in the “Order of Arts and Letters” by the French government. Her most recent work, L’Excessive, was an immediate best seller in Europe and is being developed for a television series. Alexandra Lapierre lives in Paris.

Alice Zeniter is a French novelist, translator, scriptwriter, dramatist and director. She has won a Prix Renaudot young adult award for her third novel, Juste avant l'Oubli, and a Prix Goncourt young adult for her fourth novel, L'Art de Perdre. Zeniter published her first novel, Deux moins un égal zéro, at the age of 16. Her second novel, Jusque dans nos bras, was published in 2010 and translated in English as Take This Man. Her latest novel, L'Art de Perdre, won multiple prizes and awards.

Philippe Jaenada est né à Saint-Germain-en-Laye où ses grands parents maternels possèdaient le restaurant Le Grand Cerf. Issu d’une famille de pieds-noirs récemment revenue d’Algérie, il a grandi dans une banlieue pavillonnaire de Morsang-sur-Orge dans l’Essonne. Après des études scientifiques, il s’est installé à Paris en 1986 où il enchaîne les petits boulots pendant plusieurs années. Sa première nouvelle est publiée en 1990 dans L'Autre Journal. Les sept premiers romans de Philippe Jaenada sont d'inspiration autobiographique. Outre ses livres, il écrit des articles pour le magazine Voici

Leïla Slimani is a French writer and journalist of Moroccan ancestry. In 2016 she was awarded the Prix Goncourt for her novel Chanson douce. Slimani was born in Rabat, Morocco and studied later political science and media studies in Paris. After that she temporarily considered a career as an actress and began to work as a journalist for the magazine Jeune Afrique. In 2014 she published her first novel Dans le jardin de l’ogre, which two years later was followed by the psychological thriller Chanson douce. The latter quickly turned into a bestseller with over 450,000 copies printed within a year even before the book was awarded the Prix Goncourt.

In 1999, Besson, who was a jurist at that time, was inspired to write his first novel, In the Absence of Men, while reading some accounts of ex-servicemen of the First World War. The novel won the Emmanuel-Roblès prize. L'Arrière-saison, published in 2002, won the Grand Prix RTL-Lire 2003. Un garçon d'Italie was nominated for the Goncourt and the Médicis prizes. Seeing that his works aroused so much interest, Philippe Besson then decided to dedicate himself exclusively to his writing.

New book ! "The Rain Watcher" Saint Martins Press USA October 2018 "Sentinelle de la Pluie" Editions Héloise d'Ormesson and in Norway, Holland, Sweden and Germany. Follow me on Twitter at http://twitter.com/tatianaderosnay Instagram https://www.instagram.com/tatianadero... My website : http://www.tatianaderosnay.com/ Facebook page : http://www.facebook.com/tatianaderosnay TATIANA DE ROSNAY was born in the suburbs of Paris and is of English, French and Russian descent. She is the author of 8 French novels. Tatiana de Rosnay is married and has two children. She lives in Paris with her family. She is the author of several novels, Sarah's Key, A Secret Kept (Boomerang) and The House I Loved (Rose) The Other Story (A L'Encre Russe) and "Manderley Forever', a biography of Daphne du Maurier.

Françoise Bourdin was born listening to opera. Her parents, both opera singers, helped her to develop an appreciation for strong characters and destinies, and for the music of words. As a teenager, she discovered horseback riding and it became her exclusive hobby. She dedicated her teens to this passion and to reading the works of classical authors that she discovered in her father’s huge library. Bourdin started to write short stories when she was very young. Her first novel was published by Editions Julliard when she was only twenty. Writing became the most important thing in her life and her second novel, two years later, was adapted for TV. Her fiction describes family stories, secrets, and passions. She values brave characters who face life boldly and never give up when confronted with adversity. Since 1994, she has written thirty books, three of which have been adapted for television. Her readership continues to grow with each novel. Bourdin has two daughters and lives in a beautiful home in Normandy. She writes every day, always with the same pleasure, the most beautifully human and moving stories. She knows how to express our deepest emotions and to write stories that resemble our own lives. Françoise Bourdin, née en 1952 à Paris, est un écrivain français. Elle est mariée à un médecin et a deux filles, Fabienne, née 1981, et Frédérique, née 1982. Elle commence à écrire des nouvelles à 16 ans. Elle publie son premier roman en 1972, Les Soleils mouillés. En 1973, son second roman, De vagues herbes hautes est choisi par Josée Dayan pour réaliser son premier téléfilm—avec comme interprète Laurent Terzieff. Depuis, elle a publié près d'une trentaine de livres. Elle est aussi scénariste de profession pour la télévision, beaucoup de ses romans ont été adaptés à la télévision.