Christophe Boltanski

Christophe Boltanski (2015)

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 .

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 .

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
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

personal data
SURNAME	Boltanski, Christophe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH	July 10, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH	Boulogne-Billancourt