Alessandro Baricco is an Italian writer, born at Torino in 1958. He's the author of several works, including the novels Lands of Glass (Selezione Campiello Award and Prix Médicis Étranger), Ocean Sea …
William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet, and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's…
Sophocles (497/496 BC-406/405 BC), (Greek: Σοφοκλής; German: Sophokles, Russian: Софокл, French: Sophocle, Catalan: Sòfocles) was an ancient Greek tragedian, known as one of three …
Eugène Ionesco, born Eugen Ionescu, was a Romanian playwright and dramatist; one of the foremost playwrights of the Theatre of the Absurd. Beyond ridiculing the most banal situations, Ionesco's plays …
After Napoleon III seized power in 1851, French writer Victor Marie Hugo went into exile and in 1870 returned to France; his novels include The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1831) and Les Misérables…
Boris Vian was a French polymath: writer, poet, musician, singer, translator, critic, actor, inventor and engineer. He is best remembered for novels such as L’Écume des jours and L'Arrache-cœur (trans…
Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant was a popular 19th-century French writer. He is one of the fathers of the modern short story. A protege of Flaubert, Maupassant's short stories are characterized by…
The author of some twenty works of fiction and memoir, Annie Ernaux is considered by many to be France’s most important writer. In 2022, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She has also won…
Ágota Kristóf was a Hungarian writer, who lived in Switzerland and wrote in French. Kristof received the European prize for French literature for The Notebook (1986). She won the 2001 Gottfried Keller…
Howard Buten was an American author living in France. He was also a psychologist, a clown, and a violin player. Buten was the author of five novels, the first of which, entitled When I Was Five I Kill…
Né en 1942, Michel Tremblay grandit dans un appartement de Montréal où s'entassent plusieurs familles. Ses origines modestes marqueront d'ailleurs ses œuvres, souvent campées au cœur de la classe ouvr…
Karoline Georges est née en 1970. Écrivaine et artiste interdisciplinaire, Karoline Georges explore les concepts et les processus de transformation et de sublimation. Elle s'intéresse aux manifestatio…
Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette is a Canadian novelist, film director, and screenwriter from Quebec. Her films are known for their "organic, participatory feel." Barbeau-Lavalette is the daughter of filmmaker…
Naomi Fontaine, née en 1987, est une romancière et enseignante innue originaire de Uashat dans la région administrative québécoise de la Côte Nord, au Canada.
Éric Plamondon est né à Québec en 1969. Il a été pompiste à Donnacona, bibliothécaire à Thetford Mines, barman sur la Grande Allée et a enseigné le français à l’université de Toronto. Il vit aujourd’h…
Issue de l’Option-Théâtre Lionel-Groulx, cuvée 2007, Sarah Berthiaume est comédienne, scénariste et auteure. Sa première pièce, Le déluge après, a reçu le prix de l’Égrégore 2006 et a été sélectionnée…
Marie-Eve Bourassa est romancière et scénariste. Son livre Élixir (VLB éditeur, 2014) a été finaliste du prix Marcel-Couture. Pour Adieu, Mignonne, le premier tome de Red Light, elle a reçu le prix Ar…
Marie-Andrée Gill est originaire de Mashteuiatsh et voue un culte aux métaphores savoureuses et à plusieurs poètes et écrivains. C'est tout naturellement qu'elle a entrepris d'écrire à son tour un pre…
Édouard Louis is a French writer born October 30, 1992. Édouard Louis, born Eddy Bellegueule, grew up in Hallencourt (Somme) before entering theater class at the Lycée Madeleine Michelis in Amiens. Fr…