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Nina Rolland is a Research Associate in French studies at the University of Birmingham, working on the Baudelaire Song Project led by Professor Helen Abbott (AHRC-funded). She graduated in French and Comparative Literature at the Université Sorbonne and specialises in the relations between music and literature. She completed her PhD thesis in Comparative Literature, entitled Bodies in Composition: Women, Music, and the Body in Nineteenth-Century European Literature at the University of Kent and at the Université Sorbonne in 2016. As part of the Baudelaire Song Project, she researches more particularly song settings by female composers as well as adaptations of Baudelaire’s poems in French rap music.

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Charles Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil (Alma Classics, 2016)

David Prudhomme studied illustration in Angoulême, before gaining public recognition for his series Ninon secrète which ran between 1992 and 2004. He then collaborated with Pascal Rabaté on Jacques a dit and Le jeu du foulard, before teaming up with Étienne Davodeau in 2003 to work on the graphic adaptation of Georges Brassens’s novel La tour des miracles. In 2006, he illustrated La farce de maître Pathelin and J’entr’oubliay by François Villon, thus coming back to the roots of French literature. His Rebetiko earned him the prix Regards sur le monde and the prix Lire 2010 in 2010, the prix Ouest-France/Quai des Bulles and the prix Best Foreign edition at Comicdom Festival in 2011.

http://www.futuropolis.fr/fiche_auteur.php?id_contrib=68236

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David Prudhomme, Mort & vif (Futuropolis, 2017)

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Pauline Peyrade studied at RADA (Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London) and at ENSATT (Lyon). She won recognition with her plays Ctrl-X and Bois impériaux, both produced by France Culture. She presented her Sujet à Vif at the Festival d'Avignon 2015 alongside Justine Berthillot with whom she cofounded the #CiE. Together, they wrote Poings in 2018. It was a “coup de coeur” of the Théâtre National de Strasbourg and Comédie-Française reading groups and the Mousson d’été 2017. She is associate playwright at the Théâtre des Ilets-CDN de Montluçon (since 2016), at the Théâtre Poche/GVE (season playwright in 2016-2017) and at the Scène du Jura – scène nationale (2018-2019). She teaches in the playwriting departments of the ENSATT and of the École du Nord.

https://www.solitairesintempestifs.com/476-peyrade-pauline-

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Pauline Peyrade, Poings (Les Solitaires Intempestifs, 2017)

Born in Liège, François Olislaeger graduated from the École d’arts graphiques Emil-Cohl in Lyon. He started working for the press in 2003, collaborating with newspapers such as Le Monde, Libération, Les Inrockuptibles, Beaux-Arts Magazine, before publishing graphic reports on current events. Working for the opera in Lyon and then for the Festival d’Avignon enabled him to gain insight into the world of contemporary theatre, which he explores in Carnets d’Avignon. With Actes Sud, he has written and drawn about Marcel Duchamp, Darwin, René Magritte, but he has also gained fame for Little P in Echoesland (Denoël Graphic) and Un autre monde est possible (Hachette) about the alter-globalisation movement.

https://www.actes-sud.fr/node/45156

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François Olislaeger, René Magritte vu par..., collectif, avec Gabriella Giandelli, Miroslav Sekulic, Brecht Vandenbroucke, Éric Lambe, David B. (Centre Pompidou / Actes Sud, 2016)

Alan Alexander Milne is the author of the popular series of books Winnie-the-Pooh. While studying mathematics at Cambridge, he contributed to Granta Magazine. He moved to London as a freelance writer and in 1906 he began working with Punch. After the war, he turned towards playwriting and achieved success with Mr Pim Passes By (1921) and with his detective novel The Red House Mystery (1922). Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) and The House at Pooh Corner (1928) were written for his children.

https://www.egmont.co.uk/books/author/61/a-a-milne

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A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh Classic Collection (Egmont, 2016)

David Mildon trained at LAMDA (London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts) and has worked in the West End, for BBC Radio and toured nationally and internationally. As well as extensive work with new writing, classical professional roles include Romeo and Hamlet. David recently appeared in the bilingual Dinner at the Smiths directed by Marianne Badrichani.

Daniel Medin is an editor and a Professor at the American University of Paris (AUP), where he teaches classes on contemporary world literature and editorial practice. His research is principally concerned with modern fiction from Germany, Austria and Switzerland, with an emphasis on the work and global reception of Franz Kafka. He is Associate Director of AUP’s Center for Writers and Translators, and one of the editors of its Cahiers Series. He is co-editor of Music & Literature magazine, edits The White Review’s annual translation issue and was a judge for the Best Translated Book Award in 2014 and 2015, and for the Man Booker International Prize in 2015.

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Daniel Medin, Music and Literature No. 8 (2018)

Born in Aberdeen but brought up in South Africa, Sarah LeFanu began working as Senior Editor for The Women’s Press in the 1980s and 90s. She was responsible for their innovative science fiction list, publishing many American feminist dystopian/utopian classics of the 1970s, such as Joanna Russ’s The Female Man and promoting feminist dystopian fiction. She has explored the topic of genre and the misogyny inherent to science fiction in In the Chinks of the World Machine: feminism and science fiction, which won the prestigious MLA award. She is also interested in postcolonialism, having written in 2012 the biography S Is for Samora: a Lexical Biography of Samora Machel and the Mozambican Dream. Between 2004 and 2009 Sarah was Artistic Director of the Bath Literature Festival. She frequently chairs events for the Bristol Festival of Ideas. She has been a judge for the James Tiptree Award (dedicated to science fiction), and for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize.

http://www.sarahlefanu.co.uk/

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Sarah LeFanu, In the Chinks of the World Machine: Feminism and Science Fiction (Quartet Books, 1988)

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Victor Hugo was born in 1802 and died in 1885 in Paris. As a poet, playwright, and political figure - mayor of the 8th arrondissement in Paris, a deputy and a senator - he was one of France’s most prominent public figures by the time of his death, when two million people joined his funeral. His masterpieces, including The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, Les Misérables, The Contemplations live on today in school curricula, stage adaptations, cinema, radio, and popular culture.

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Victor Hugo, Four Plays: Marion de Lorme; Hernani; Lucretia Borgia; Ruy Blas (Methuen Drama, 2004)

Marie Hugo lives and works between London and France where she was born and is a descendant of Victor Hugo. At sixteen she was admitted to the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Montpellier where she studied engraving and lithographic printing. She then lived in Hong Kong where she painted large mural paintings for public orders. In the eighties she returned to Europe. She exhibits in galleries in France and abroad (New York, Tokyo, London).

http://www.mariehugo.com/

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Jean-Baptiste Hugo, Marie Hugo et Laura Hugo, Hauteville House : Victor Hugo décorateur (Editions Paris Musées, 2016)