Christophe Boltanski
Christophe Boltanski (born July 10, 1962 in Boulogne-Billancourt ) is a French journalist and author .
Life
Boltanski is the son of the sociologist Luc Boltanski and the nephew of the linguist Jean-Élie Boltanski and the installation artist Christian Boltanski . From 1987 he studied at the Paris Center de formation des journalistes . To do his military service, he then worked for the French-language magazine Progrès Egyptien . From 1989 to 2007 he worked for the Paris daily newspaper Liberation , among other things as a war correspondent during the Second Gulf War , then from 1995 to 2000 as a correspondent in Jerusalem and from 2000 to 2004 in London and then for the weekly "Le Nouvel" Observateur "(now L'Obs ) and the online magazine Rue 89 . Since the beginning of 2017 he has succeeded Patrick de Saint-Exupéry as editor-in-chief of the quarterly Paris magazine XXI .
Prizes and awards
- 2010: Prix Bayeux-Calvados des corresponants de guerre for his report on a mine in the North Kivu region in eastern Congo .
- 2015: Prix Femina for the novel about his La Cache family .
Publications
- with Jihan al-Tahri: Les Sept Vies de Yasser Arafat . Grasset, Paris 1997 ISBN 2-246-49601-2
- with Farah Mébarki and Rémi Benali: Bethléem . 2000 ans de passion . Tallandier, Paris 2000 ISBN 2-235-02278-2
- with Éric Aeschimann: Chirac d'Arabie. Les Mirages d'une politique française . Grasset, Paris 2006 ISBN 978-2-246-69121-1
- Minerais de sang: Les esclaves du monde moderne . Photographs Patrick Robert. Grasset, Paris 2012 ISBN 978-2-246-76471-7
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La Cache . Novel. Stock, coll. Bleue, Paris 2015 ISBN 978-2-234-07637-2
- The hiding place. Novel . Translated by Tobias Scheffel . Carl Hanser, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-446-25642-2
- Le guetteur . Novel. Stock, Paris 2018 ISBN 978-2-234-08171-0
Web links
- Biography (fr.)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.revue21.fr/la_vie_de_xxi/christophe-boltanski-rejoint-xxi/
- ^ Das Versteck , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of November 7, 2011, p. 11
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Boltanski, Christophe |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French journalist and author |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 10, 1962 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Boulogne-Billancourt |