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AUDOUIN-DUBREUIL Ariane
publié le 17 mars 2008.
La Croisière Jaune : sur la route de la soie (édition revue et augmentée) (Glénat, 2007)
GUO Xiaolu
publié le 17 mars 2008.
Xiaolu Guo was born in 1973 in a small fishing village in the south of China. She discovered poetry and its virtues very early on. She published her first poem at age 15 when going through a difficult period. That is when she realized how much poetry could help her, and not only poetry in the literal sense, but also a poetic attitude towards life.
She has capitalized on that approach to life by publishing poems and novels, such as her famous Village of Stone translated into French and (...)
LEVISON Iain
publié le 17 mars 2008.
According to the French weekly Télérama (2007), Levison is a writer who knows how to make an impression on his readers and gets them really involved because he does not know how to hate and is extremely clairvoyant.
Iain Levison was born in Scotland, grew up in the USA and now lives in North Carolina. At the end of his university studies, he held a large variety of jobs, from crab fisherman in Alaska, to truck driver and house painter. Those stories he tells in A Working Stiff’s (...)
FOUNTAIN Ben
publié le 17 mars 2008.
Ben Fountain put an end to his career practicing law in Dallas in 1988 to start writing full time. It took him 17 years before he finally landed his first book contract. But in the meantime, he had published some short stories in literary magazines. He took his time to learn and develop his craft. But is there a standard in writing ? He confesses to a single episode of self-doubt in those seventeen years, an episode that lasted all of six hours when he considered going back to school. (...)
MCCANN Colum
publié le 17 mars 2008.
Colum McCann, born 1965, is an Irish-born writer of literary fiction. He discovered literature very early on, his father being a journalist and publisher. He studied journalism at St Joseph’s College, then the only school with such a program in Ireland. He started working as an editor for the Evening Herald and the Evening Press in the eighties.
At the age of twenty-one, he embarked on a two-year bicycle tour of the USA. In the course of his 20,000km trip following in Jack (...)
ALEXIE Sherman
publié le 18 mars 2008.
Sherman Alexie was born on an Indian reservation ( “where one only has silence to listen to” ) near Spokane, Wash. He was born hydrocephalic, and, at six months of age, underwent brain surgery to correct the condition. His initial prognosis was grim ; even after he survived the operation, doctors predicted that he would suffer from the aftermaths of his condition. However, Alexie proved to be an extremely intelligent child, who learned to read at the age of three and by the age (...)
COLLINGHAM Lizzie
publié le 17 mars 2008.
Curry : A Tale of Cooks and Conquerors Oxford University Press, 2007)
GERONIMO Harlyn
publié le 17 mars 2008.
Harlyn Geronimo was born in 1947, is an Apache medicine man and the great-grandson of the famous Chiricahua Apache warrior Geronimo. He lives on a reservation in New-Mexico with his wife and family where he carries on the traditions and customs of the Apache Native Americans (also known as American Indians). In 1918, President George H. W. Bush’s father Prescott Bush decimated Geronimo’s tomb and stole his skull and bones and took them back to Yale University as a memento for (...)
HURLEY Graham
publié le 19 mars 2008.
Graham Hurley was born in Clacton-at-Sea, Essex in November 1946 and spent more than twenty years in Portsmouth, site of the British Navy’s old arsenal.
He is the author of several mysteries and the maker of documentaries for British television. He now dedicates all of his time to his Joe Faraday series. Graham Hurley is married and lives in Devon. He speaks very good French.
Links :
The author’s own website
Bibliography :
The Price of Darkness
One Under
Blood and (...)
MACLEAN Rory
publié le 17 mars 2008.
Rory MacLean was born on November 5, 1953 in Vancouver and is a writer and traveller who divides his time between Great Britain and Morocco. As a child he drew maps of the world, filling the spaces between the countries he knew with imaginary lands and histories. After graduating from Upper Canada College in Toronto, he trained as a filmmaker and scriptwriter, working with David Hemmings and Ken Russell in London, Marlene Dietrich in Paris and David Bowie in Berlin. But Rory MacLean is a (...)
MILTON Giles
publié le 18 mars 2008.
Edward Trencom’s Nose:A Novel of History,Dark Intrigue, and Cheese
BASARA Svetislav
publié le 18 mars 2008.
Basara describes himself as a brilliant observer of a unity of time, place and action, and well known for his habit of talking about phenomena and ideas he knows nothing about. And yet, he gathers all the materials he needs like an ant. According to critics, he is "mad, a genius, a libertarian, an entertainer who is insolent and sentimenta"l (Telerama), "mean and cruel in a funny way" (Livres Hebdo), "a mad writer" (Le Devoir) and "Candid in Mongolia" (Le Matricule des Anges) ; Le (...)
XINRAN
publié le 18 mars 2008.
Xinran was born into a well off family in Beijing in 1958. She was soon sent to a military orphanage with her brother where they spent the seven years their parents were imprisoned as reactionaries. At age fifteen, Xinran published her first poem and decided to study English, international relations and computer science.
In the 1980’s, the Chinese authorities needed people to develop radio and television and called upon military personnel trained as journalists to organise TV (...)
ABOUET Marguerite
publié le 18 mars 2008.
Marguerite Abouet was born in Abidjan in 1971. She came to France at the age of 12 with her big brother to attend school. After a course of studies that was shorter than originally planned, she decided to write while doing several odd jobs, from baby-sitter to waitress and data clerk. Today, she works as a legal assistant and lives in Romainville while continuing to write.
Though Marguerite Abouet has been living in France since 1983, she has never forgotten her native Africa. Aya de (...)
ACEVAL Nora
publié le 18 mars 2008.
Snow White riding on a camel, Tom Thumb lost in the desert, that’s the world of Nora Aceval. She was born in 1953 of a pied-noir father and an Algerian mother, in the Ouleds Sidi Khaled tribe in Tousnina in southeastern Algeria. It is a land rich in fantasy, where the transhumant nomads put down their packs and pass on their stories over the course of a season.
Nora Aceval is the heiress of both the oral tradition of Arabic storytelling as well as of the western tales that she learnt (...)
VALLAEYS Anne
publié le 18 mars 2008.
Anne Vallaeys, of Belgian origin, was born in 1951 in Yangambi, on the banks of the Congo River. She spent the first ten years of her life between the savannas and primal forests. After graduating in history at the Sorbonne, she co-founded the daily newspaper : Libération in 1973. She was permanent correspondent in Marseille. She left the paper in 1981 and signed a contract with an editor, Jean-Claude Lattès. She and her companion Alain Dugrand are the authors of a fictional trilogy : Les (...)
ULINICH Anya
publié le 18 mars 2008.
Anya Ulinich was born in 1973 in Moscow. When Anya was seventeen, her family immigrated to the United States. Anya attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and received an MFA from the University of California at Davis. In 2000, she moved to Brooklyn, abandoned painting and began to write. Petropolis is her first novel. She was named, along with Dinaw Mengestu, one of the five most promising under-thirty-five writers of 2007 by the National Book Foundation.
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GUERRA Wendy
publié le 18 mars 2008.
Born in 1970, Wendy Guerra was already a respected poet before she won the 13 de marzo (March 13th) prize at 17. She has been awarded several prizes for her two collections of poems published in Cuba Platea Oscura and Cabeza Rapada . She has a real passion for writing and has participated in the writing workshops organised in Cuba by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. She also won the Pinos Nuevos poetry prize and has been included in several Cuban literature anthologies. Guerra contributes to (...)
SCHULBERG Budd
publié le 18 mars 2008.
Qu’est-ce qui fait courir Sammy ? (Robert Laffont, 2008), Un homme dans la Foule (Rivages, 2006)
SANSAL Boualem
publié le 25 mars 2008.
Le village de l’Allemand ou Le journal des frères Schiller (Gallimard, 2008)
ISAACSON Rupert
publié le 25 mars 2008.
Les derniers hommes du Kalahari : rencontre avec les Bushmen (Albin Michel, 2008)
DELACOUR Marie-Odile, HULEU Jean-René
publié le 25 mars 2008.
Le voyage soufi d’Isabelle Eberhardt (Joelle Losfeld, 2008)
CONTE Giuseppe
publié le 25 mars 2008.
According to Jean-Baptiste Para, Giuseppe Conte’s French translator, his poetry – and that would be one of its visible meridians – integrates mythical figures as though the numinous experience of the Greeks, the Celts, or the Aztecs were fires that the centuries had failed to completely extinguish. As though the pagan gods, in their final place of exile, forced the poet to look into the burning fires of the void.
Giuseppe Conte was born in Liguria on 1945 and lives on (...)
ADAM Olivier
publié le 25 mars 2008.
Olivier Adam was born in 1974 in the suburbs of Paris and has already published a fifth novel entitled A l’abri de rien (L’olivier, 2007). He never hesitates to broach social and political subjects and has thus managed to achieve recognition quickly as an author who matters among the new generation of French writers.
In 2004 he was awarded the prestigious Prix Goncourt de la Nouvelle. His fourth novel Falaise ( L’olivier, 2005) was highly acclaimed when it was released at (...)
BELLEVILLE Régis
publié le 25 mars 2008.
L’or du diable. Du désert de Maurétanie au mines d’or du Mali (Presse de la Renaissance, 2008)
EVANGELISTI Valério
publié le 23 avril 2008.
Valerio Evangelisti was born on June 20, 1952 in Italy. He is a historian by training but became a researcher in political science at the university of Bologna where he resides. A fan of popular literature, Evangelisti turned to novel writing after having published several historical and sociological essays. If one can actually talk about a militant sci-fi genre, then Evangelisti is a part of that movement. He is one of the leaders of a new generation of Italian novelists and was the (...)
NAJJAR Alexandre
publié le 6 mai 2008.
Alexandre Najjar was born in Beirut in 1967. After studying law at the Sorbonne and Paris II university, he became a lawyer in the Courts, and specialized in the law of banks and finances.
He has written some historical novels (Les Exilés du Caucase, Grasset, 1995), biographies (Khalil Gibran, Pygmalion, 2002 ; Saint Jean-Baptiste, Pygmalion, 2005) and stories (L’Ecole de la guerre, La Table Ronde, prefaced by Richard Millet). His books have been translated in a dozen languages and (...)
EWEN Patrick
publié le 6 mai 2008.
“ Once upon a time, Patrick Ewen sat there watching his neighbours, his heroes, emerging from the crowds and advancing towards legends …”
Patrick Ewen comes from the area of the Monts d’Arrée in Brittany. He started working as a musician and a singer. In the 70’s, he produced two records of traditional Scottish and Breton ballads with his friend Gérard Delahaye. Without completely giving up singing, he nonetheless started writing epics and fantasy stories (...)
FOUGERAY Karine
publié le 6 mai 2008.
Karine Fougeray is a graphic artist who was born in 1963. She grew up in Saint-Malo and spent her whole adolescence there. After 17 years in Paris, she decided to return to Brittany and to write the stories waiting for her there. She has a keen sense of observation and writes about men and women of al ages. She delves into their past without complacency and her universe is composed of four types of people, the living, the dead, and those who leave on the deck of a boat or on the back (...)
DARRAS Jacques
publié le 6 mai 2008.
Jacques Darras who writes poems, essays and does translations, lives in Paris and Brussels. He was born in 1939 in the Manche area and has been teaching English and American literature in university in Picardie since 1969 and has also been writing and translating poetry. He created the journal « in ’hui » in Amiens in 1978 which was published by the Maison de la Culture d’Amiens, then by Le Cri editions in Brussels. He has mainly published French poets like Jacques Roubaud and (...)
DIONNET Jean-Pierre
publié le 6 mai 2008.
Jean-Pierre Dionnet was born on November 27, 1947 in Paris, and has held several different jobs. He is a writer of books and comics. He became famous with the well known Les enfants du rock, which he co-hosted with Philippe Manœuvre in the 80’s. But above all, he became famous with his comics. He started working as a clerk in a comics book store then started writing comics in the 60’s then went to work for L’Écho des savanes before moving to Pilote in 1968. In (...)
ALVARADO Monica
publié le 6 mai 2008.
Monica Alvarado was born in 1967 in Ushuaia, Argentina. She studied fine arts in Argentina and then became a professor in her subject, which allows her to share her passion with her students. She draws her inspiration from the landscapes, the wind and the geography of her native Tierra Del Fuego, but also from the memories of her ancestors. Her works, most often exhibited in South America, in Argentina, of course, but also in Chile, will soon be crossing the Atlantic via a documentary (...)
BLANC-FRANCARD Patrice
publié le 6 mai 2008.
Patrice Blanc-Francard is a journalist, an expert on jazz, an iconic figure of the seventies on France Inter radio and creator of the famous Enfants du Rock show. He has always worked in television and radio. He was programme director at Europe 1, then worked for Disney Channel before becoming the head of Disney France. In 2004, he put an end to his career to return to his first love, music. He is the producer of the Caravan musical documentaries broadcast during the festival.
En (...)
BON François
publié le 6 mai 2008.
At first glance, nothing in François Bon’s background, born in 1953 in Luçon, of a garage mechanic father and a primary school teacher mother, would have lead anyone to believe he would eventually choose writing as a career. Although he acquired a passion for books very early on, he chose to study engineering, more particularly mechanics at the prestigious school of Arts et Métiers. He specialized in soldering by electron beam and then worked several years in the aerospace and nuclear (...)
BOUDAN Christian
publié le 6 mai 2008.
Christian Boudan was born in 1947 in Paris. His parents had a restaurant, and while studying he spent his childhood learning how to cook with the different chefs who worked for them. After he got his mathematics certificate, he studied economics and clinical psychology until he got his DEA (an advanced university diploma) ; nevertheless he took "a few breaks to satisfy his taste for long trips".
He then became a researcher in audiovisual communications and a multimedia author. At the end (...)
BOUTAVANT Marc
publié le 6 mai 2008.
Marc Boutavant was born in 1970. He is a graphics artist and a comics author and illustrator. He writes children’s books. He contributed the series Ariol et ses amis for the magazine J’aime lire ; and his first books in cooperation with François Michel - a collection entitled A petit pas - were published by Actes Sud junior.
He is regarded as one of the best illustrators of his generation. He is a member of the Atelier des Vosges, a group composed of some comics authors of the (...)
BRAUDEAU Michel
publié le 6 mai 2008.
Michel Braudeau was born on May 12,1946 in Niort and was brought up in Nantes before attending boarding schools in Paris and Normandy. Under the influence of his grandfather he discovered very early on Proust, Montaigne, Stendhal, Gide and Rimbaud. These writers introduced him to the joy of reading in bed at an age when children tend to be more interested in real life.. Michel Braudeau was in Paris in May 68 where he witnessed the effervescence of the revolt and of the new wind that was (...)
BRENIFIER Oscar
publié le 6 mai 2008.
Dis papa, tu m’aimes ? (Nathan, 2008), Dis maman, pourquoi j’existe ? (Nathan, 2008)
CHABAUD Catherine
publié le 6 mai 2008.
Femme libre, toujours tu chériras la mer (Chasse-marée, 2007)
COLDEFY-FAUCARD Anne
publié le 6 mai 2008.
Anne Coldefy Faucard is agrégée de russe, meaning she holds a specialised diploma in the Russian language and has translated several novels into French, such as Le pays d’outre passé by Boris Pilniak. She teaches at the Sorbonne and also works for éditions Paulsen, a publishing house specialised in polar literature. She works with Emmanuel Durand, Christian de Marliave and Anne Victoire Charrin who will all participate in the events organised for the ‘polar’ days.
En (...)
COMMERE Pascal
publié le 6 mai 2008.
Graminées : un cahier perdu puis retrouvé (Le Temps qu’il fait, 2007)
CORBEAU Jo
publié le 6 mai 2008.
Jo Corbeau is not his real name. He was born Geordes Ohanessian in 1946 in Marseilles of Armenian refugees parents.
He began his career as a musician in the 1970’s with his rock band Albert et sa fanfare ; then he contributed to the creation of the Elvis Platiné band in 1978. He developed a real and sincere passion for Reggae music at a Bob Marley concert. At the beginning of the 1980’s, Jo Corbeau put his heart and his soul in Jamaican music and created the Mediterranean (...)
RAHIMI Atiq
publié le 27 avril 2009.
Syngué Sabour - Pierre de patience (P.O.L., 2008) Prix Goncourt 2008
JARVIS Tim
publié le 27 avril 2009.
Tim Jarvis is a modern-day adventurer. Though he has become, what with his experience and knowledge of the preservation of the environment, a well-known public speaker, he is more famous for his numerous explorations of the world. He has, among other adventures, biked across the Sierra Madre in Central America, traversed the Spitsbergen icesheet, and made the first unsupported crossing of the largest Australian desert, the Pedirka. In 2004, Jarvis received the Spirit of Adventure award (...)
DE MARLIAVE Christian
publié le 27 avril 2009.
Christian de Marliave is a scientific and editorial advisor specialised in polar literature for Editions Paulsen. He coordinated the Tara-Artic (2006-2008) scientific program to drift on the Arctic ocean for 500 days. He will be co-operating with Emmanuel Durand, Anne Coldefy-Faucard and Anne-Victoire Charrin of Editions Paulsen for the ‘pole’ days.
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