Laurent Gaudé est un romancier et dramaturge français. Après avoir été nommé pour le Prix Concourt 2002 avec La mort du roi Tsongor, il a gagné ce prix en 2004 pour son roman Le Soleil des Scorta. He studied theater and has written many dramatic works, among them Onysos le furieux, Cendres sur les mains, Médée Kali, and Le Tigre bleu de l'Euphrate. In 2002 he was shortlisted for the Prix Goncourt for La Mort du roi Tsongor. Two years later, he won the prize for his novel The Scortas' Sun (French: Le Soleil des Scorta).

Abdellah Taïa is a Moroccan writer born in Salé in 1973. He grew up in a neighborhood called “Hay Salam” located between Salé and Rabat, where his father Mohammed works at the General Library of the capital. His mother M’Barka, an illiterate housewife, gives so much meaning to his days and accompanies his sleep with her nocturnal melodies. This son of a working-class district and second youngest of a household of ten children is the first Moroccan writer to publicly assume his homosexuality. Abdellah Taïa has been living in Paris since 1999, where he obtained a doctorate in Letters at La Sorbonne University while managing to write 5 books. The last one, called “an Arabian melancholia”, was just published by “Seuil” on March 6th of 2008

الطاهر بن جلون Tahar Ben Jelloun (Arabic: الطاهر بن جلون‎‎) is a Moroccan writer. The entirety of his work is written in French, although his first language is Arabic. He became known for his 1985 novel L’Enfant de Sable (The Sand Child). Today he lives in Paris and continues to write. He has been short-listed for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Lola Lafon, née en 1973, est une chanteuse, femme de lettres et compositrice française. D’origine franco-russo-polonaise, élevée à Sofia, Bucarest et Paris, Lola Lafon s’est d’abord consacrée à la danse avant de se tourner vers l’écriture. Après des publications dans des fanzines et des revues alternatives, elle a été répérée par des revues littéraires ( la N.R.V, entre autres, qui a publié ses premières nouvelles en 1998 et jusqu’en 2000.) Chaque sortie de roman a été accompagnée d’un « concert lecture ». Après une commande du Festival « les Correspondances de Manosque » à la sortie de « De ça je me console », elle a, avec ses deux musiciens, effectué une tournée de plus de trente dates qui s’est terminée aux Bouffes du Nord. Pour la sortie de Nous sommes les oiseaux de la tempête qui s’annonce, Lola Lafon a, à la demande du théâtre de l’Odéon, créé un concert-lecture inédit intitulé « La petite fille au bout du chemin », qui mêlait différents textes d’auteurs divers, tous autour de la figure de son héroïne et de ses comparses imaginaires et littéraires. Pour La Petite communiste qui ne souriait jamais, elle prévoit également une création (si ces concerts-lectures sont surtout donnés dans des théâtres et des festivals du livre, elle aime également à les délocaliser et à les proposer en version courte ou simplement à deux—elle-même plus un musicien—dans des librairies qui pourraient souhaiter les accueillir.) (http://www.actes-sud.fr)

Alternative spelling for Stéphanie Blake, French author of children books. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more information.

Régis Jauffret is the author of numerous novels, including "Universe, Universe" (2003) for which he was awarded the "Prix Décember" and "Insane Asylum" (2005) for which he won the "Prix Femina". In 2007, his book "Microfictions" was awarded the "Prix France Culture / Telerama" and the grand prize of black humor Forneret Xavier. Régis Jauffret est l’auteur de plusieurs romans, dont Histoire d’amour, Clémence Picot, Fragments de la vie des gens, Univers, univers, prix Décembre 2003, Asiles de fous, prix Femina 2005, Microfictions, prix France Culture-Télérama 2007, et Lacrimosa (2008). Il a également publié une pièce de théâtre, Les gouttes. http://www.folio-lesite.fr/Folio/aute...

Philippe Claudel is a French writer and film director. His most famous work to date is the novel " Les Âmes Grises " - " Grey Souls ", which won the prix Renaudot award in France, was shortlisted for the American Gumshoe Award, and won Sweden's Martin Beck Award. In addition to his writing, Philippe Claudel is a Professor of Literature at the University of Nancy.

The phenomenal Lewis Trondheim is never where you next expect him. As an artist and writer, Trondheim has earned an international following as one of the most inventive, versatile, and prolific graphic authors. From autobiography to adventure, from bestselling fantasy and children's books to visual essays, Trondheim's unique, seminal imagination consistently dazzles. His work has won numerous awards, including the Angoulême prize for best series with McConey and he also co-created the titanic fantasy epic Dungeon with Joann Sfar. He is one of the founding members of the alternative publishing house L'Association, a proving ground for many of the greatest talents in European comics working today. He is also the editorial director of a new imprint called Shampooing, dedicated to comics for all ages. Lewis lives in the South of France with his wife, Brigitte Findakly, and two children.

Marie Darrieussecq was born on January 3, 1969. She was raised in a small village in the Basque Country. While finishing her PhD in French Literature, she wrote her first novel, Truismes (Pig Tales) which was published in September 1996 by Paul Otchakovsky-Laurens (POL), who have published all her subsequent novels as well. After the success of Truismes, Darrieussecq decided to quit her teaching position at the University of Lille to concentrate on writing her novels. Her first husband was a mathematician, her second is an astrophysicist. She gave birth to a son in 2001 and to a daughter in 2004. She endorsed Ségolène Royal's candidacy during the French Presidential Elections of 2007.

Joann Sfar (born August 28, 1971 in Nice) is a French comics artist, comic book creator, and film director. Sfar is considered one of the most important artists of the new wave of Franco-Belgian comics. Many of his comics were published by L'Association which was founded in 1990 by Jean-Christophe Menu and six other artists. He also worked together with many of the new movement's main artists, e.g. David B. and Lewis Trondheim. The Donjon series which he created with Trondheim has a cult following in many countries. Some of his comics are inspired by his Jewish heritage as the son of Jewish parents (an Ashkenazi mother and a Sephardic father). He himself says that there is Ashkenazi humor in his Professeur Bell series (loosely based on Joseph Bell), whereas Le chat du rabbin is clearly inspired by his Sephardic side. Les olives noires is a series about a Jewish child in Israel at the time of Jesus. Like Le chat du rabbin, the series contains a lot of historical and theological information. His main influences are Fred and André Franquin as well as Marc Chagall, Chaim Soutine, Will Eisner, Hugo Pratt and John Buscema. From 2009 to 2010, Sfar wrote and directed 'Serge Gainsbourgh: Une Vie Heroique', a biopic of the notorious French songwriter, of whom Sfar is a self-confessed fanatic. The film, which draws substantially on Sfar's abilities as a comic book artist through its extensive use of fantasy artwork, animation and puppetry, was released in 2010 to general critical acclaim.

Romancier de renom, Olivier Adam connaît un succès populaire et critique indéniable qui le place parmi les écrivains les plus connus de sa génération. Ancien étudiant en gestion des entreprises culturelles, il participe à la création du festival littéraire 'Les Correspondances de Manosque' et travaille comme directeur de collection aux éditions du Rouergue. C'est son premier roman paru en 2000, 'Je vais bien, ne t'en fais pas' qui lui permet d'accéder à la notoriété. Lauréat du prix Goncourt de la nouvelle en 2004 pour 'Passer l'hiver', l'auteur poursuit néanmoins dans la veine romanesque avec 'Falaises' ou 'À l'abri de rien'. Des histoires plein la tête, Olivier Adam sort coup sur coup 'Des vents contraires' (2009) et 'Le coeur régulier' (2010), tout en écrivant des ouvrages jeunesse, 'Les Boulzoreilles', avec Euriel Dumait (2010) ou 'Personne ne bouge' (2011). Parmi les auteurs français les plus adaptés au cinéma, il collabore dès 2006 avec Philippe Lioret, au scénario de l'adaptation de son premier roman 'Je vais bien, ne t'en fais pas'. Il retrouve ensuite le réalisateur pour l'écriture du script de 'Welcome'. Il participe également aux scénarios de 'Poids léger' et 'Maman est folle (d' après 'À l'abri de rien') de Jean-Pierre Améris, et à celui de l'adaptation par Jalil Lespert de son roman 'Des vents contraires', sorti en décembre 2011. http://www.evene.fr/celebre/biographi...

Jul est né en 1974. Avant de devenir dessinateur, il vagabonde dans de longues études, de Normale Sup' à l'agrégation d'Histoire, de la recherche en sinologie à l'enseignement universitaire... Mais son enfance passée dans une école alternative a semé des graines coriaces : défroqué de l'Education Nationale, il entre comme dessinateur au Nouvel Observateur, puis à Charlie Hebdo en 2001 où la joie du dynamitage hebdomadaire de l'actualité le conquiert définitivement. Il collabore en parallèle à maints journaux : Philosophie Magazine, Lire, Les Echos, l'Huma, Marianne, Le Point, Fluide Glacial... Depuis 2008, il dessine chaque semaine sur le plateau de La Grande Librairie sur France 5. Son premier album de bande dessinée, Il faut tuer José Bové, est une plongée délirante dans la jungle altermondialiste. Les lecteurs plébiscitent l'ouvrage. « Un autre succès est possible » : ce sera en 2006 avec La Croisade s'amuse, journal intime de Mme Ben Laden, qui parodie le choc des civilisations. Dès lors, le processus est enclenché : avec Le Guide du moutard pour survivre à neuf mois de grossesse, il reçoit le prix Goscinny en 2007. En 2009 : c'est la crise ? Jul investit dans l'âge de pierre ! Silex and the City est sa première série, saga familiale préhistorique et satire implacable de notre quotidien d'hommes modernes. 120 000 exemplaires et deux tomes plus tard, il revient à la racine de tout : la philosophie... http://www.dargaud.com/auteurs-bd/jul...

Philippe Delerm est né le 27 novembre 1950 à Auvers-sur-Oise. Ses parents étant instituteurs, il passe son enfance dans des «maisons d’école» : à Auvers, Louveciennes, Saint-Germain. Études de Lettres à la faculté de Nanterre, puis nommé professeur de lettres en Normandie. Il vit donc depuis 1975 à Beaumont-le-Roger (Eure), avec Martine, sa femme, également professeur de lettres et illustrateur-auteur d’albums pour enfants. http://www.mercuredefrance.fr/auteur-...

Pénélope Bagieu, (born 22 January 1982 Paris), is a French illustrator and comic designer. She became known for her comic blog My quite fascinating life. Penelope Bagieu graduated with a bachelor's degree in Economic and Social studies, she spent a year at ESAT Paris, then at the National School of Decorative Arts in Paris and then at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design. Multimedia and entertainment, where she graduated in December 2006. (from Wikipedia)

Lydie Salvayre is a French writer. Born in the south of France to Republican refugees from the Spanish Civil War, she went on to study medicine in Toulouse and continues to work as a practicing psychiatrist. She has been awarded both the Prix Hermes and the Prix Novembre for her work. She won the Prix Goncourt 2014 for her novel Pas Pleurer.

Mathias Énard studied Persian and Arabic and spent long periods in the Middle East. A professor of Arabic at the University of Barcelona, he won the Prix des Cinq Continents de la Francophonie and the Prix Edmée-de-La-Rochefoucauld for his first novel, La perfection du tir. He has been awarded many prizes for Zone, including the Prix du Livre Inter and the Prix Décembre. Compass, which garnered Énard the renowned Prix Goncourt in 2015, traces the intimate connection between Western humanities and art history, and Islamic philosophy and culture. In one sentence that's over 500 pages long, Zone tells of the recent European past as a cascade of consequences of wars and conflicts. Énard lives and works in Barcelona, where he teaches Arabic at the Universitat Autònoma. His latest publications include a poetry collection titled Dernière communication à la société proustienne de Barcelone (Final message to the Proust Society of Barcelona) and Le Banquet annuel de la confrérie des fossoyeurs, a long novel published in 2020.

Sorj Chalandon est un journaliste et écrivain français. Sorj Chalandon is a French journalist and writer.

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.