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Nina Bouraoui
Nina Bouraoui was born in 1967 to a French mother and an Algerian father. She lived in Algiers until the age of fourteen befo...
Daniel Pennac
Daniel Pennac (real name Daniel Pennacchioni, born 1 December 1944 in Casablanca, Morocco) is a French writer. He received the Prix Renaudot in 2007 f...
Malika Mokeddem
Malika Mokeddem (Kenadsa, Algeria; October 5, 1949) is an Algerian writer.
Biography
Malika Mokeddem was born on October 5, 1949, in Kenadsa, a sma...
Fayard
Fayard (complete name: Librairie Arthème Fayard) is a French Paris-based publishing house established in 1857. Fayard is controlled by Hachette Livre....
Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert (UK: FLOH-bair, US: floh-BAIR, French: [ɡystav flobɛʁ]; 12 December 1821 – 8 May 1880) also known as Flambert, was a French novelis...
Adunis
Adonis is one of the most celebrated poets and essayists of the Arab world. Born in Syria in 1930, he fled political persecution and settled in Lebano...
Abdelwahab Meddeb
Abdelwahab Meddeb (Tunisian Arabic: عبد الوهاب المدب; 1946 – 5 November 2014) was a French-language writer and cultural critic, and a professor of com...
Marjane Satrapi
Marjane Satrapi (French: [maʁʒan satʁapi]; Persian: مرجان ساتراپی [mæɾˈdʒɒːn(e) sɒːtɾɒːˈpiː]; born 22 November 1969) is a French-Iranian graphic novel...
Denoël
Since 1930, Denoël has been offering engaging French & foreign literature, as well as essays & documents. Through its various collections, the house p...
Éditions du Seuil
Éditions du Seuil, also known as Le Seuil, is a French publishing house established in 1935 by Catholic intellectual Jean Plaquevent (1901–1965), and ...
Gilles Deleuze
Gilles Louis René Deleuze ( də-LOOZ, French: [ʒil dəløz]; 18 January 1925 – 4 November 1995) was a French philosopher who, from the early 1950s until ...
Actes Sud
Created in 1978, in a village in the Baux Valley, by Hubert Nyssen and his wife, Christine Le Boeuf, soon joined by the other founders, Françoise Nyss...
Roger Garaudy
Roger Garaudy (French: [ʁɔʒe gaʁodi]; 17 July 1913 – 13 June 2012) was a French philosopher, French resistance fighter and a communist author. He conv...
Flammarion
Flammarion is a generalist publishing house that explores the fields of literature, humanities, illustrated books and youth. Since its creation in 187...
Karthala
Karthala is a French publishing house specializing in the history, sociology, religion, languages and geopolitics of developing countries.Its headquar...
Enki Bilal
Enki Bilal (born Enes Bilal; born 7 October 1951) is a French comic book creator and film director.
Biography
= Early life =
Bilal was born in Bel...
Randa Habib
Randa Habib, a French journalist of Lebanese origin, has spent twenty-five years covering war, politics and economic development in the Middle East. D...
Rowayat
In 2012, Rowayat روايات launched as a literary journal platforming the hybrid writer, focusing on E...
Victor Hugo
Victor-Marie Hugo, vicomte Hugo (French: [viktɔʁ maʁi yɡo] ; 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885), sometimes nicknamed the Ocean Man, was a French Romantic...
Ismail Kadare
Ismail Kadare (Albanian pronunciation: [ismaˈil kadaˈɾe]; born 28 January 1936) is an Albanian novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter, and playwright....
Nina Bouraoui
Nina Bouraoui was born in 1967 to a French mother and an Algerian father. She lived in Algiers until the age of fourteen befo...
Daniel Pennac
Daniel Pennac (real name Daniel Pennacchioni, born 1 December 1944 in Casablanca, Morocco) is a French writer. He received the Prix Renaudot in 2007 f...
