Agnès Martin-Lugand (born 1979) is a French novelist who gained fame with Les gens heureux lisent et boivent du café (Happy People Read and Drink Coffee) when she published it on Kindle in December 2012. By 2017, her five novels had clocked up sales of two million worldwide.
Catherine Nay (born 1 January 1943 in Tours) is a French political columnist and commentator.
Blanche Gardin (French pronunciation: [blɑ̃ʃ ɡaʁdɛ̃]; born 3 April 1977) is a French comedian, actress and screenwriter. She became known to the general public through her participation in the Jamel Comedy Club and for her role in the television series WorkinGirls on Canal+, and then became popular with her stand-up shows. She won the Molière Award for Humor two years in a row for her shows Je parle toute seule and Bonne nuit Blanche in 2018 and 2019. As a screenwriter, she notably co-wrote the short program Parents mode d'emploi, broadcast on France 2.
Gardin holds a Master of Sociology degree from the Paris Nanterre University.
Alice Zeniter (born 1986) is a French novelist, translator, scriptwriter, dramatist and director.
She has won a Prix Renaudot young adult award for her third novel, Juste avant l'Oubli, and a Prix Goncourt young adult for her fourth novel, L'Art de Perdre.
Zeniter published her first novel, Deux moins un égal zéro, at the age of 16. Her second novel, Jusque dans nos bras, was published in 2010 and translated into English as Take This Man.
Her novel, L'Art de Perdre, won multiple prizes and awards. It was published in English in 2021 as The Art of Losing, for which she won the International Dublin Literary Award along with its translator Frank Wynne.
Katherine Pancol (born 22 October 1954) is a French journalist and novelist. Her books have been translated into some 30 languages, and sold millions of copies worldwide. In the United States, she is known as the author of The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles (Penguin, 2013) and its sequel, The Slow Waltz of Turtles (Penguin, 2016), both translated by William Rodarmor.
Casey Legler (born 26 April 1977) is a French-American writer, restaurateur, model, and former Olympic swimmer.
Anne Golon (17 December 1921 – 14 July 2017) was a French author, better known to English-speaking readers as Sergeanne Golon. Her Angélique novels have reportedly sold 150 million copies worldwide and have inspired multiple adaptations.
Muriel Cerf (4 June 1950 – 19 May 2012) was a French novelist and travel writer.Her first book, L'Antivoyage, was inspired by her travels in Southeast Asia, and was a major critical success. She was awarded the Prix Littéraire Valery Larbaud in 1975 for Le Diable vert.
Mélissa Theuriau (French pronunciation: [melisa tœʁjo]; born 18 July 1978) is a French journalist and news anchor for M6. She studied journalism and became a television news presenter. She is the former anchor and co-editor in chief of Zone interdite on French TV.
Sophie Fillières (20 November 1964 – 31 July 2023) was a French film director and screenwriter who wrote for more than fifteen film and television productions from 1991 on.Fillières died on 31 July 2023, at the age of 58.