Stephen Carrière
Stephen Carrière is a French writer, publisher and translator. He joins the Anne Carrière publishing house in 2004 and has been his managing director since 2009. More: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Carri%C3%A8re
Marianne Payot
Marianne Payot is a literary critic for the French newspaper L'Express.
Eric Lafraise
Eric Lafraise is the Market Manager for Literature and Knowledge of the Cultura bookshops chain. He has been working for Cultura for more than 17 years.
Gaëlle Josse
Having started out as a poet, Gaëlle Josse’s debut novel, Les heures silencieuses (The Quiet Hours) was published in 2011. It was followed by Nos vies désaccordées (Our Out of Tune Lives) in 2012 and Noces de neige (Snow Wedding) in 2013.
Emmanuelle Pagano
Emmanuelle Pagano was born in Rodez (Aveyron) in 1969. She graduated in Fine Arts, and has conducted university research in the field of aesthetics in film and multimedia. P.O.L has published four novels - three of them centered on childhood - which were highly acclaimed by critics.
She lives today in Ardèche, with three children.
Laurence Plazenet
Laurence Plazenet was born in Paris in 1968. At five-years-old, she was already a passionate reader, quickly developing her desire to write. A former student at the prestigious Ecole Normale Supérieure, she is a Classic Literature ‘agrégée’ and holds a Literature PhD. She started her career as a Sorbonne professor after having studied at Princeton until 1994. However, for a long time she was convinced that she didn’t have anything to say that was worth being printed. She then worked for ten years on academic papers, feeling she was, at least, useful to literature.
Sophie Daull
Sophie Daull is an actress and writer born in Eastern France in 1965.
It was her studies in music at the National Conservatory of Strasbourg that encouraged her early on to pursue her artistic practices. Since then, her experiences have become ever-more enveloped in the worlds of letters, sounds and movement.
She has danced with Odile Duboc, Georges Appaix and Jean Gaudin.
Stanislas Rigot
Stanislas Rigot is a bookseller at the Lamartine bookshop in Paris.
Marianne Payot
Marianne Payot is a literary critic for the French newspaper L'Express.
Gaëlle Josse
Gaelle Josse (born 1960) is a French poet and novelist. She received the EUPL for France in 2015 for Le dernier gardien d'Ellis Island. Her work has been translated into several languages.