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Erik L'Homme
Erik L'Homme, (born 22 December 1967 in Grenoble), is a French writer of youth novels. He is known for the fantasy trilogy Book of the Stars, the space opera trilogy Les Maîtres des brisants and the fantasy thriller series Phænomen. As of 2014, his works had sold a total of 1.1 million copies in France. The French-language edition of Book of the Stars has sold 650,000 copies and been translated into 28 languages, which have sold another million copies. Works * ''Parlons khowar : langue et culture de l'ancien royaume de Chitral au Pakistan'', Éditions L'Harmattan, 1999 * ''Book of the Stars'' (''Le Livre des étoiles'') ** Volume 1: ''Quadehar the Sorcerer'' (''Qadehar le sorcier''), Gallimard Jeunesse, Paris, 2001 ** Volume 2: ''The Mystery of Lord Sha'' (''Le Seigneur Sha''), Gallimard Jeunesse, Paris, 2002 ** Volume 3: ''The Face of the Shadow'' (''Le Visage de l'Ombre''), Gallimard Jeunesse, Paris, 2003 * ''Les Maîtres des brisants'' ** Volume 1: ''Chien-de-la-lune'', Ga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paris - Salon Du Livre 2012 - Erik L'Homme - 001
Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the List of cities proper by population density, 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of the world's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, Fashion capital, fashion, gastronomy, and science. For its leading role in the arts and sciences, as well as its very early system of street lighting, in the 19th century it became known as "the City of Light". Like London, prior to the Second World War, it was also sometimes called Caput Mundi#Paris, the capital of the world. The City of Paris is the centre of the Île-de-France Regions of France, region, or Paris Region, with an estimated population of 12,262,544 in 2019, or about 19% of the population of France, making the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grenoble
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L'Express
''L'Express'' () is a French weekly news magazine headquartered in Paris. The weekly stands at the political centre in the French media landscape, and has a lifestyle supplement, ''L'Express Styles'', and a job supplement, ''Réussir''. History and profile ''L'Express'' was co-founded in 1953 by Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, future president of the Radical Party, and Françoise Giroud, who had earlier edited '' ELLE'' and went on to become France's first minister of women's affairs in 1974 and minister of culture in 1976. When founded during the First Indochina War, it was modelled on the US magazine ''Time'' and the German magazine '' Der Spiegel''. ''L'Express'' is published weekly. The magazine was supportive of the policies of Pierre Mendès-France in Indochina, and in general had a left-of-centre orientation. The magazine opposed the war in Algeria, and especially the use of torture. In March 1958, as a result of an article of Jean-Paul Sartre reviewing the book '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Figaro
''Le Figaro'' () is a French daily morning newspaper founded in 1826. It is headquartered on Boulevard Haussmann in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. The oldest national newspaper in France, ''Le Figaro'' is one of three French Newspaper of record, newspapers of record, along with ''Le Monde'' and ''Libération''. It was named after Figaro, a character in a play by polymath Pierre Beaumarchais, Beaumarchais (1732–1799); one of his lines became the paper's motto: "''Sans la liberté de blâmer, il n'est point d'éloge flatteur''" ("Without the freedom to criticise, there is no flattering praise"). With a Centre-right politics, centre-right editorial line, it is the largest national newspaper in France, ahead of ''Le Parisien'' and ''Le Monde''. In 2019, the paper had an average circulation of 321,116 copies per issue. The paper is published in Berliner (format), Berliner format. Since 2012 its editor (''directeur de la rédaction'') has been Alexis Brézet. The newspaper has bee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Éditions L'Harmattan
Éditions L'Harmattan, usually known simply as L'Harmattan (), is one of the largest French book publishers. It specialises in non-fiction books with a particular focus on Sub-Saharan Africa. It is named after the Harmattan, a trade wind in West Africa. Description L'Harmattan was founded in 1975. In 2013 it produced 500 magazines and 2,000 new books per year, both in print and as e-books, and has a backlist of 38,000 books, 33,000 e-books, and 1,700 videos, with about a third each on Europe, Africa, and the rest of the world. A third of its titles are in literature, a tenth in history, and 5 per cent each in philosophy, current affairs, education, politics, sociology, and fine arts. Slightly fewer are published in economics, psychology, ethnology, languages, etc., but even these categories have hundreds of titles, for example 500 in languages, and more languages taught than almost any other publisher. L'Harmattan controls costs by requiring authors to prepare electronic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gallimard Jeunesse
Gallimard Jeunesse is a French publisher of children's books. It is a subsidiary of Éditions Gallimard. It is the publisher of the French versions of ''Harry Potter'' by J.K. Rowling, the catalogue of Roald Dahl, ''The Little Prince'' by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, ''Animorphs'' by Katherine Applegate, '' The English Roses'' and other books by Madonna, ''Winnie the Pooh'', and ''Pokémon''. Gallimard also publishes ''The Book of Time'' trilogy, by Guillaume Prévost (which includes '' The Book of Time'', '' The Gate of Days'' and '' The Circle of Gold''), and the birthplace of the encyclopaedic collection "Découvertes Gallimard". Games and gamebooks In the 1980s, they published most of the gamebooks in France, in the collection Folio Junior — ''Un livre dont ''vous'' êtes le héros'' (''a book in which ''you'' are the hero'', a reference to the caption of the covers of the ''Fighting Fantasy'' gamebooks), including ''Fighting Fantasy'', ''Sorcery!'', '' Lone Wolf'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Bottero
Pierre Bottero (13 February 1964 – 8 November 2009) was a French writer. Biography He was born on 15 February 1964 in Barcelonnette, in the Alps. As a very young man, he came to live in Provence, a region he never left since then. He said that he wouldn’t be able to live without sun, mistral and cicadas. Married and father of a family, he worked as a primary school teacher for a long time before turning completely towards writing. Passionate about French literature and convinced of the power of imagination and words, he always dreamed of alternate universes, dragons, magic. He died on 8 November 2009. Career He published his first texts at Flammarion, including his debut novel ''Amies à vie'', before releasing the Ewilan saga (double trilogy), ''Le pacte des Marchombres'', and ''L’autre'' (trilogies), three heroic fantasy series, a genre he especially loved. His love for fantastic literature started early in life, with the works of J.R.R. Tolkien John Ronald Reue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1967 Births
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21st-century French Novelists
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French Fantasy Writers
French (french: français(e), link=no) may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to France ** French language, which originated in France, and its various dialects and accents ** French people, a nation and ethnic group identified with France ** French cuisine, cooking traditions and practices Fortnite French places Arts and media * The French (band), a British rock band * "French" (episode), a live-action episode of ''The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!'' * ''Française'' (film), 2008 * French Stewart (born 1964), American actor Other uses * French (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name) * French (tunic), a particular type of military jacket or tunic used in the Russian Empire and Soviet Union * French's, an American brand of mustard condiment * French catheter scale, a unit of measurement of diameter * French Defence, a chess opening * French kiss, a type of kiss involving the tongue See also * France (other) * Franch, a surname * Frenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
