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Authors
Salomé Berlemont-Gilles
Born into a Franco-Moroccan family, Salomé Berlemont-Gilles has a degree in literature and is a graduate of Sciences Po Paris. When she was twenty, she won a short story competition and published a short text, Argentique,
(JC Lattès, 2013). In 2020, she published her first novel, Le Premier qui tombera (Grasset), which traces fifty years in the life of one man and, through his story, «the shattered French dream» of a Guinean family who arrived in France in the 1960s. Le Premier qui tombera was awarded the 5th Prix Régine-Deforges in 2020 and the Prix littéraire Québec-France Marie-Claire-Blais in 2022.
Alain Bron
Winner of the Bourse de l'Aventure at the age of sixteen, Alain Bron set off alone for the Sahara, returning with a wealth of experiences that would shape his entire literary and professional life.
Later, he developed a passion for corporate psychosociology. Alain Bron has published essays, short stories, thrillers and award-winning novels. He also runs L'Art en chemin in the Oise region and chairs a theatre company. He is a member of the Société des Gens De Lettres et des Écrivains des Hauts-de-France.
Sandrine-Malika Charlemagne
Sandrine-Malika Charlemagne is a writer, actress and documentary maker. Born in Paris, she grew up in Picardy before moving back to the 18th arrondissement of the capital, where she still lives today. For a time she worked as a tequila waitress, cleaner and switchboard operator at SOS Médecins. At the same time, she learnt acting from Véronique Nordey and worked under her direction, as well as with Jean-Claude Fall, Armel Veilhan and Armand Gatti. Today, she is a theatre and film actress, and director of the documentaries :
En attendant Hugo, Mon 18e sans bruit, Si Balzac m'était conté. She made a documentary film with Jean Asselmeyer, entitled Deux Vies pour l'Algérie (Two Lives for Algeria). As for her books, Sandrine-Malika writes novels, plays and poetry. She is the acclaimed author of Mon pays étranger (published by La Différence, 2012) and La Voix du Moloch (published by Velvet, 2020), for which she won a CNL prize.
Amandine Dhée
Amandine Dhée is a writer and actress. Emancipation, our relationship with others and our living environment are the recurring themes that mark her work, which won the Hors Concours prize for La femme brouillon in 2017.
Her need to explore different artistic forms regularly brings her to the stage to share her texts in musical readings, or to play a role in adapting them for the stage.
Constance Ely
A flight attendant and mother, Constance Ely divides her time between her travels, her two children and the stories that fill her imagination. She loves the escapism that a good romance can provide, and hopes to transport you into her world... Her literature is popular and accessible, often classed as «dark romance».»
Camille Laurens
Camille Laurens is a French writer, known for her introspective style and her stories centred on identity and relationships.
Born on 6 November 1957 in Dijon, she taught literature before devoting herself fully to writing.
She came to prominence with her novel Dans ces bras-là (2000), which explores the bonds of love and family.
Her work often blends autobiography and fiction, addressing themes such as loss, desire and language. A member of the Académie Goncourt since 2020, she occupies an important place in contemporary French literature.
Clémence Leleu
After initial professional experience in the regional daily press and then in the web department of 24-hour news channels, Clémence Leleu became a freelance journalist working on rural life, working-class neighbourhoods and women. She has since specialised mainly in Japan, working for lifestyle magazines such as Pen and Tempura.
Brahim Metiba
Brahim Metiba, born in Skikda on 4 June 1977, is an Algerian writer. He lives and works in Paris.
After studying computer science, he left Algeria at the age of 23 to settle in France. Born into a modest family, he began writing at the age of 25 and was published at the age of 37. His texts are based on autobiographical material. However, it is more accurate to speak of autofiction.
Wilfried N'Sondé
Born in 1968 in Brazzaville, Wilfried N'Sondé grew up in the Île-de-France region and lived in Berlin for twenty-five years. He now lives in Lyon. He is the author of six novels published by Actes Sud, including Le Cœur des enfants léopards (2007, Prix des Cinq Continents de la Francophonie and Prix Senghor de la création littéraire), Un océan, deux mers, trois continents (2018), which has won a dozen literary prizes, including the Prix Ahmadou Kourouma, the Prix France Bleu / Page des libraires and the Prix des lecteurs de L'Express / BFMTV, and Femme du ciel et des tempêtes (2021). Wilfried N'Sondé's stories explore historical adventures, the experience of exile and otherness and, more recently, our relationship with the living world. He wrote the texts for the photographic work Borders by Jean-Michel André (Actes Sud, 2020), exhibited at the Rencontres d'Arles 2021.
Didier Willot
Didier Willot is a journalist and writer. Specialising in economic issues, he has contributed to a number of newspapers. Now retired, he writes articles for Le Nouvel Economiste and has published several books on the history of Picardy: Histoires vraies en Picardie with Dominique Brisson, Femmes d'exception en Picardie and Ces Picards qui ont fait l'histoire. He has devoted a title to water: Eau ! Histoire, secrets et richesses, published by Editions Cours toujours.
Authors for Young People
Henri Fellner
Henri Fellner studied at the École des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. He works for the press and publishing houses, notably Gallimard Jeunesse and Milan. He bought a computer without throwing away his pens, pencils and his first box of watercolours (given to him by his grandfather). He draws people rather than tractors and loves music as much as silence. His book 30 things not to do with animals
was offered to first-graders as part of the Christmas 2025 books.
Noé Margolis
I'm an author and actress. A graduate of the FEMIS, I first made short films (awarded and broadcast) and films for the web, while writing scripts for French and Moroccan television. I published my first book, Le lion dans la cage (Eds. Michalon), which I adapted and performed on stage. This was followed by Les Buttes Chaumonstres (L'Agrume) illustrated by Béatrice Ménuel, La forêt infinie (Centre Pompidou) illustrated by Gérard Garouste and Baaah les masques (Nathan) illustrated by Bérengère Staron. At the same time, after Les Féroces, I wrote the recurring comic strip Les voyages de Max et Némo illustrated by Edith Chambon for the magazine Baïka. I'm also a member of the KO des mots troupe, which runs literary improvisation workshops and shows. Finally, for the last fifteen years or so, I've been running writing workshops for a wide range of audiences (children, teenagers and adults) through the associations La Source - Garouste, the compagnie de l'Arcade, the théâtre 71, Amilit and my own organisation CinéAstre. I recently trained in songwriting at CIFAP. You can listen to my podcast La cassette de chansons on all platforms!
Jean-Baptiste Drouot
After working in graphic design and video games, he began illustrating for Bayard, Fleurus, Hélium, Comme des Géants and other publishers. He has illustrated Cache-cache dinos and Muséum dinos for Hélium, Va chercher le pain for Les 400 Coups and Les animaux qui existent peut-être for Little Urban. This biography is as short as the man is long. He lives in Clichy, France.
Bertrand Dubois
Bertrand Dubois was born in 1972 in the Paris region. A graduate of L'E.C.V in Paris, he began his career working for the press and in communications, before quickly moving into children's publishing, where he found the space and support to develop his graphic style to the full. He loves drawing on other people's texts and words, and inventing colourful worlds of his own. He published his first albums with Le Rouergue, and now has around thirty books for young people published by a number of publishing houses. His work, full of colour and texture, is inspired by pictorial art and has found its way into the press, children's publishing and illustration galleries. He also spends some of his time teaching drawing. Bertrand lives in Les Lilas and works at home, not far from his garden.
Éponine Cottey
Éponine Cottey was born at dawn in the summer of 1989 somewhere in the Chaourçais region, in the heart of Champagne... In the midst of wheat fields and books, people are always drawing in her house - and often houses, in fact, with a sister who is to become an architect... When the time came to leave this Eden, Éponine went to Paris to study illustration at the École Estienne. She continued her studies at the Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg, and finally returned to Paris, where she now lives and works for the press and children's publishing.
Sandra Dufour
Sandra Dufour, born in 1982, trained in image design at the Arts Décoratifs in Strasbourg and acquired her embroidery technique at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin.
In her drawings with thread, her preferred medium, time is stretched out. Here, we prick, pierce, pass through the material with
an almost automatic repetition of the gesture.
Apparent gentleness and harshness clash, like the tales and myths that Sandra Dufour brings to life.
Jean-Marc Fiess
Jean-Marc Fiess is a professional photographer and film set designer. He has published a number of photo books for adults and children, notably with Thierry Magnier. He has also made several short films for cinema and television. A fan of pop-ups, ABC 5 langues (2013) is his first animated book. He lives and works in Paris.
Laura Lion
Born in 1995, Laura Lion (known as Lauroilion) grew up in the Paris region and developed a passion for the visual arts from an early age. She entered the Olivier de Serre school in 2014, where she obtained a diploma in applied art in product design. She continued her studies at the Arts Décoratifs de Paris and began to develop her signature characters, which earned her a diploma in printed images, with distinction from the jury. As a children's illustrator, she enjoys creating worlds based on unreal worlds born of her own imagination. She invents new planets and rethinks unfamiliar places, sometimes featuring zany and touching dialogue. With her original, humorous style, she inspires us to daydream, guiding us through whimsical, poetic worlds.