France

Philippe Ôtié 

Philippe Ôtié is a French diplomat. This is his first graphic novel

Roannie 

French writer Roannie, a member of Amnesty International and a pediatrician, became increasingly committed to peace work after her retirement. Between 2002 and 2005, she made multiple trips to the Middle…...

André Pieyre de Mandiargues 

André Pieyre de Mandiargues (1909–91) was a French writer of the fantastic whose prolific output included poems, plays, essays, novels, and short stories. He also translated works by Yeats,…...

Dominique Hérody 

Born in 1957, Dominique Hérody first devoted himself to comics, which he still teaches in Angoulême, before turning in the mid-1990s to literature. He recently published Maurice & Léa,…...

Nine Antico 

Born in the early 1980s, Nine Antico is a French illustrator and cartoonist. She started her career with a fanzine, Rock This Way, in which she combined her two passions: rock and illustrations. She is…...

David Prudhomme 

David Prudhomme was born in 1969 and lives in Bordeaux in France. He is a graduate of the Arts School of Angoulême. In 2006, he adapted two novels by François Villon, and collaborated with…...

François Bon 

François Bon was born in Vendee in 1953. After studying mechanical engineering at the Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Arts et Metiers, he specialized in electron beam welding and he worked in the…...

Laurent Graff 

Laurent Graff is the author of several works of fiction, including Les Jours heureux (Happy Days, Carroll & Graf, 2004; Prix Millepages, 2002). Film rights to Happy Days have been optioned by Johnny…...

Vincent Mondiot 

Vincent Mondiot is twenty-six and lives in the Parisian suburbs. He has written several short stories and novels, including Terrortriste, an experimental novel he self-published as a fictional fanzine,…...

Lewis Trondheim 

Lewis Trondheim was born in 1964. In 1990, he was one of the founding members of L'Association, which publishes some of the top European comic artists. The prolific Trondheim has published over thirty-five…...

Anouar Benmalek 

Anouar Benmalek was born in Casablanca in 1956 and now lives in France. After the 1988 riots in Algeria in protest of government policies, he became one of the founders of the Algerian Committee Against…...

Fabrice Neaud 

Born in 1968, Fabrice Neaud is a graduate of the Fine Arts School. He started working on his ambitious autobiographical project in 1991. He is also the co-founder of Ego comme X, where the first volume…...

Golo 

Golo (real name: Guy Nadeau) was born in 1948 in France and lives in Cairo. He began his career in 1973 as a magazine illustrator for French music and various Egyptian newspapers, and has published numerous…...

Blutch 

Christian Hincker, who uses the pseudonym Blutch, studied art in Strasbourg, where he was born. Blutch made his comic debut in the magazine Fluide Glacial in 1988 with Pecos Jim and several short stories.…...

Gébé 

Gébé, or Georges Blondeaux (1929–2004), has been a fixture of the French press since 1960. He was best known as a cartoonist, but also author, lyricist, screenwriter, and dramatist,…...

François Vallejo 

François Vallejo teaches literature in Le Havre. He is the author of seven previous novels, all published with Éditions Viviane Hamy, most of which have won major literary awards: Madame…...

Troub’s 

Troub's was born in 1969, in Pessac. He studied fine arts in Toulouse and d' Angouleme. He lives in the Dordogne and travels widely. A contemplative artist, in love with nature and animals, he…...

Jochen Gerner 

Jochen Gerner studied fine arts in Nancy from 1988 to 1993. After his studies, he began illustrating and published some pages in the collective album Périphéries (L'Association). His…...

Diane Obomsawin 

Born in Montreal in 1959, Diane Obomsawin spent the first twenty years of her life in France. Trained in graphic design, she returned to Canada in 1983 and turned her attention to painting, comics and…...

Jocelyn Dupré 

Jocelyn Dupré was born in 1959. He teaches French at a college in the Paris area. The small apartment where he resides is cluttered with various cardboard boxes and stacks of books which, usurping…...

Richard Marazano 

Richard Marazano was born in 1971. He lives in the suburbs of Paris. He studied physics and astrophysics before launching his writing career. His books include Zéro absolu drawn by Christophe Bec…...

Xavier Delaporte 

Xavier Delaporte was born in 1967 and lives in Savoy. His first graphic novel, Chaabi, with text by Richard Marazano, was published by Futuropolis in 2007.

Marie Darrieussecq 

Marie Darrieussecq was born in 1969 in Bayonne, France. She is a graduate of the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris. Her debut novel, Pig Tales (1996), was published in 34 countries and became the most…...

Clement Oubrerie 

Clément Oubrerie was born in Paris in 1966. After a stint in art school he spent two years in the United States doing a variety of odd jobs, publishing his first children's books and serving…...

Jérôme Mulot 

Florent Ruppert (Troyes, 1979) and Jérôme Mulot (Dijon, 1981) have published the fanzines Le Journal de l'Aventure (2002), Le Journal de l'Aventure diese 2 (2003), and Del Aventure…...

Philippe Dupuy 

Born in Paris, Philippe Dupuy has been working in comics for nearly thirty years, mostly in collaboration with Charles Berberian, creating strips about their well-known character Mr. Jean. He and Berberian…...

Mathieu Lindon 

Mathieu Lindon was born in 1955. He is a literary journalist at Libération and the author of Ceux qui tiennent debout (2006), Je vous écris (2004), Ma catastrophe adorée (2004), Lâcheté…...

David B. 

David B. was born in N—mes on February 9, 1959. He both designs and writes comic books. After completing his studies in the Applied Arts at Duperré, he published his first comic book, Le Timbre…...

Tonino Benacquista 

After being, in turn, a museum night-watchman, a train guard on the Paris-Rome line and a professional parasite on the Paris cocktail circuit, Tonino Benacquista is now a highly successful author of fiction…...

Pierre Michon 

Pierre Michon is considered by some to be one of the great masters of contemporary French prose. In 2002, he was awarded the Prix Décembre for Corps du Roi and Abbés, published by Éditions…...

Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud 

Born in Paris in 1947, fabulist Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud has published seven novels, including La Faculté des songes (Grasset, 1982), which won the prestigious Prix Renaudot. He has…...

Antoine Audouard 

Antoine Audouard was born in Paris in 1956. Audouard spent six years as publishing director of Laffont-Fixot. His novel Farewell, My Only One was published in English in 2004, shortlisted for the Goncourt…...

François Devenne 

François Devenne was born in Nantes in 1964. He completed his student thesis on the geography and agriculture of Kilamanjaro, and then worked at l'Institut français de recherché…...

Fred Vargas 

Fred Vargas was born in Paris in 1957. As well as being a best-selling author in France, she is a historian and archaeologist by training.

J. M. G. Le Clézio 

J. M. G. Le Clézio was born in 1940 in Nice, where he did his primary, secondary, and university studies. In 1963, he scored a major success with his first novel, Le Proces Verbal, which received…...

Florent Ruppert 

Florent Ruppert was born in Troyes in 1979. His publications include the fanzines Le Journal de l'Aventure (2002), Le Journal de l'Aventure diese 2 (2003), and Del Aventure (2004), and the books…...

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