{"id":6162,"date":"2026-06-03T12:52:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T12:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mairie-montataire.fr\/?p=6162"},"modified":"2026-06-03T12:52:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T12:52:20","slug":"authors-at-the-book-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mairie-montataire.fr\/en\/actualites\/auteurs-et-autrices-de-la-fete-du-livre\/","title":{"rendered":"Authors at the Book Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"
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To see the programme for the book festival, click here<\/div><\/path><\/svg><\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Authors<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Salom\u00e9 Berlemont-Gilles<\/mark><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Born into a Franco-Moroccan family, Salom\u00e9 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 Latt\u00e8s, 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, \u00abthe shattered French dream\u00bb of a Guinean family who arrived in France in the 1960s. Le Premier qui tombera was awarded the 5th Prix R\u00e9gine-Deforges in 2020 and the Prix litt\u00e9raire Qu\u00e9bec-France Marie-Claire-Blais in 2022.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Alain Bron<\/mark><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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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 Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 des Gens De Lettres et des \u00c9crivains des Hauts-de-France.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Sandrine-Malika Charlemagne<\/mark><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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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 M\u00e9decins. At the same time, she learnt acting from V\u00e9ronique 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'\u00e9tait cont\u00e9. She made a documentary film with Jean Asselmeyer, entitled Deux Vies pour l'Alg\u00e9rie (Two Lives for Algeria). As for her books, Sandrine-Malika writes novels, plays and poetry. She is the acclaimed author of Mon pays \u00e9tranger (published by La Diff\u00e9rence, 2012) and La Voix du Moloch (published by Velvet, 2020), for which she won a CNL prize.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Amandine Dh\u00e9e<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Amandine Dh\u00e9e 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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Constance Ely<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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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 \u00abdark romance\u00bb.\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Camille Laurens<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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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-l\u00e0 (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 Acad\u00e9mie Goncourt since 2020, she occupies an important place in contemporary French literature.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Cl\u00e9mence Leleu<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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After initial professional experience in the regional daily press and then in the web department of 24-hour news channels, Cl\u00e9mence 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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Brahim Metiba<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Wilfried N'Sond\u00e9<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Born in 1968 in Brazzaville, Wilfried N'Sond\u00e9 grew up in the \u00cele-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 C\u0153ur des enfants l\u00e9opards (2007, Prix des Cinq Continents de la Francophonie and Prix Senghor de la cr\u00e9ation litt\u00e9raire), Un oc\u00e9an, 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 temp\u00eates (2021). Wilfried N'Sond\u00e9'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 Andr\u00e9 (Actes Sud, 2020), exhibited at the Rencontres d'Arles 2021.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Didier Willot<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Authors for Young People<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Henri Fellner<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Henri Fellner studied at the \u00c9cole des Arts D\u00e9coratifs 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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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No\u00e9 Margolis<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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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 B\u00e9atrice M\u00e9nuel, La for\u00eat infinie (Centre Pompidou) illustrated by G\u00e9rard Garouste and Baaah les masques (Nathan) illustrated by B\u00e9reng\u00e8re Staron. At the same time, after Les F\u00e9roces, I wrote the recurring comic strip Les voyages de Max et N\u00e9mo illustrated by Edith Chambon for the magazine Ba\u00efka. 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 th\u00e9\u00e2tre 71, Amilit and my own organisation Cin\u00e9Astre. I recently trained in songwriting at CIFAP. You can listen to my podcast La cassette de chansons on all platforms!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Jean-Baptiste Drouot<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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After working in graphic design and video games, he began illustrating for Bayard, Fleurus, H\u00e9lium, Comme des G\u00e9ants and other publishers. He has illustrated Cache-cache dinos and Mus\u00e9um dinos for H\u00e9lium, Va chercher le pain for Les 400 Coups and Les animaux qui existent peut-\u00eatre for Little Urban. This biography is as short as the man is long. He lives in Clichy, France.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Bertrand Dubois<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u00c9ponine Cottey<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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\u00c9ponine Cottey was born at dawn in the summer of 1989 somewhere in the Chaour\u00e7ais 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, \u00c9ponine went to Paris to study illustration at the \u00c9cole Estienne. She continued her studies at the Arts D\u00e9coratifs de Strasbourg, and finally returned to Paris, where she now lives and works for the press and children's publishing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Sandra Dufour<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Sandra Dufour, born in 1982, trained in image design at the Arts D\u00e9coratifs 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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Jean-Marc Fiess<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Laura Lion<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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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 D\u00e9coratifs 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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Local authors<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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David Belo<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Nadine Chauvin<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Gem<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Bravo Kayizilanga<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Chris Planchais<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

St\u00e9phane Rodriguez<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Patricia Scharff<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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To see the programme for the book festival, click here<\/div><\/path><\/svg><\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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