Few writers have so decisively mastered modern writing as did Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880). Flaubert, who was known for his temperament, devoted his life to writing, in the full sense of the word: he wrote and meticulously re-wrote his manuscripts, and published scarcely. In addition to the novels he has written, including Madame Bovary and Bouvard […]
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Irène Némirovsky was a French writer. She was born in Kiev in 1903 to Leon Némirovsky, a wealthy Jewish banker and lived with her parents in St. Petersburg. Némirovsky wrote 38 short stories, a biography of Chekhov’s life, and nine novels, most famous of which is Suite Française, published after her death to international acclaim. Némirovsky […]
Gilles Rozier was born in Grenoble, France in 1963. He Published seven novels, the most famous of which, Un Amour sans Résistance, has been translated into 12 languages. Rozier has a P.h.D. in Yiddish literature and from 1994 to 2014 he was the director of Maison de la Culture Yiddish in Paris, the largest Yiddish library and cultural center in […]
Born in Montreal in 1965, Thierry Horguelin lives in Belgium since 1991. During twenty years, he worked as a book reviewer and film critic for numerous magazines and newspapers in Canada, France, and Belgium. He is currently copy-editor in chief at Indications (Brussels), editor and book designer for les éditions Le Cormier (Brussels), and assistant […]
Marcel Aymé was born in 1902 in Burgundy, France. Orphaned at a young age, he was raised by his grandfather in a countryside village. In 1923, after completing his military service, he settled in Paris and worked as a bank teller, an insurance salesman, a journalist, and a newspaper editor. His first novel was published in […]
Sylvain Tesson, born in 1972, has been traveling the world for over twenty years. He is a “écrivain-voyageur,” a traveling writer, that is to say, he bases a substantial part of his writing on personal experiences from the journeys on which he embarks. In other words, the way he observes the world as a traveler […]
Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) wrote in his lifetime nearly 300 short stories, and with their distinct style, he became one of the masters of the short story. Shaded with irony, de Maupassant’s stories illuminate parts of the human mind and soul, and find unfamiliar ones, threatening even. This way, the gaps between what the characters […]
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