Tag: Novelist
From writing to image, the novelist Alice Zeniter takes the plunge for a first feature film
/ Podcasts / Cultural guest After winning the Goncourt prize for high school students in 2017 for the art of losing, Alice Zeniter launches into the cinema. His first feature…
Mélissa Da Costa, the most widely read novelist in France, is releasing a new novel
/ Podcasts / Cultural guest Women from the End of the World is the title of his 6th book just released. At only 32 years old, Mélissa Da Costa has…
Jennifer Haigh, an American novelist in the reconquest of women’s rights
Jennifer Haigh was born in 1968 in Barnesboro, Pennsylvania. She studied in France and first turned to journalism, before devoting herself to literature. She wrote her first novel while living…
Best-selling novelist Françoise Bourdin has died
The successful novelist Françoise Bourdin, one of the most read in France with more than 15 million books sold, died Sunday at the age of 70, announced this Monday, December…
Death of French novelist Françoise Bourdin at the age of 70
Best-selling novelist Françoise Bourdin, one of the most widely read authors in France with more than 15 million books sold, died on Sunday December 25. Françoise Bourdin, born in 1952…
For the novelist Anaïd Demir, “to project yourself, you need a return to the past”
Motherhouse, Anaïd Demir’s first novel is a return to family and cultural sources. After 20 years of hectic life in Paris as an art critic and exhibition curator, the budding…
At the crossroads of the worlds, with the first-time novelist Walid Hajar Rachedi
Franco-Algerian, Walid Hajar Rachedi delivers, with What am I going to do in paradise? a promising first novel. Half-autofiction, half “road-novel”, this book tells the initiatory quest of its central…
Turkish novelist Elif Shafak, digging up memories and replanting trees
Elif Shafak is the author of twelve critically acclaimed novels, including ‘The Sultan’s Architect’, ‘The Bastard of Istanbul’, ‘Three Daughters of Eve’, and ’10 Minutes and 38 Seconds in This…
Biography | Alfred Elton Van Vogt – Novelist
Alfred Elton Van Vogt is considered one of the leading figures of the golden age (1920-1995) of American science fiction, with landmark works such as In Pursuit of the Slans,…
Biography | Becky Chambers – Novelist
Young, she began by writing fan-fiction on Sailor Moon. Then later, she studied performing arts. Becky Chambers worked as a director of theater companies, then as a technical writer or…