Christophe Mauri envoie son premier manuscrit à l'âge de 13 ans au éditions Gallimard Jeunesse, les éditeurs le trouvent trop jeune mais garde contacte avec lui…
Amélie Nothomb, born Fabienne Claire Nothomb, was born in Etterbeek, Belgium on 9 July 1966, to Belgian diplomats. Although Nothomb claims to have been born in Japan, she actually began living in Japa…
Jean Hegland's first novel, INTO THE FOREST, has been translated into eleven languages and is a frequent choice for campus- and community-wide reading programs. A film version starring Ellen Page and …
I was born in 1962 in Coventry (scarily ancient, I know). I wrote my first picture book for my little brother when I was eight or nine. I loved making comics, too - pages and pages of picture stories,…
Robert Muchamore was born in Islington, London in 1972. He still lives there, and worked as a private investigator up until 2005 and the critically-accepted release of Maximum Security.
Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk is a Polish writer, activist, and public intellectual. She is one of the most critically acclaimed and successful authors of her generation in Poland. She was awarded the 2018 No…
Jan Parandowski was a Polish writer, essayist, and translator. Best known for his works relating to classical antiquity, he was also the president of the Polish PEN Club between 1933 and 1978, with a …
Audrey Alwett, née en 1982 en banlieue parisienne, développe son goût pour l'écriture dès l'école primaire en écrivant des contes de fées un brin ridicules, mais qui ont le mérite de faire rire ses pe…
French-Rwandan Gaël Faye is an author, composer and hip hop artist. He was born in 1982 in Burundi, and has a Rwandan mother and French father. In 1995, after the outbreak of the civil war and the Rwa…
Elle s'est d'abord tournée vers une carrière scientifique et médicale avant de se lancer dans l'écriture. Elle est fascinée par la navigation et la piraterie du …
