Christophe Boltanski

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Christophe Boltanski
Error creating thumbnail:
Christophe Boltanski at salon du livre du Mans in 2015
Born (1962-07-10) 10 July 1962 (age 63)
CitizenshipFrench
Occupationsjournalist, writer, novelist
Employer(s)Libération, Le Nouvel Obs
ParentLuc Boltanski
AwardsPrix Bayeux-Calvados des correspondants de guerre 92000), Prix Femina (2015), Prix des prix littéraires (2015)
Signature
File:Signature christophe boltanski.png

Christophe Boltanski (born 10 July 1962[1]) is a French journalist, writer and chronicler. He was awarded laureate of the 2015 Prix Femina prize for his novel La Cache,[2] which is the basis for the film La Cache (The Safe House).

Biography

[edit | edit source]

Christophe Boltanski is the son of sociologist Luc Boltanski and the nephew of linguist Jean-Élie Boltanski and conceptual artist Christian Boltanski.

After he completed his studies in 1987 at the Centre de formation des journalistes,[3] Christophe Boltanski worked for the Le Progrès Egyptien (within the framework of his national service then for the daily Libération from 1989 to 2007; after being a war correspondent during the Gulf War, he was the correspondent of this newspaper in Jerusalem (1995–2000) and then in London (2000–2004).[4]

From 2007 to 2017, he worked for the weekly Le Nouvel Observateur, while collaborating on the website Rue 89.

In 2000 he was awarded the Prix Bayeux-Calvados des correspondants de guerre for a report on a mine in Congo, in the Nord-Kivu region: "Les Mineurs de l'enfer".[5]

Works

[edit | edit source]
Non-fiction Books
  • Les Sept Vies de Yasser Arafat (with Jihan El-Tahri), Grasset, 1997 Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  • Bethléem : 2000 ans de passion (with Farah Mébarki and Rémi Benali, at Éditions Tallandier, 2000 Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  • Chirac d'Arabie (Les Mirages d'une politique française) (with Éric Aeschimann), Grasset, 2006 Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  • Minerais de sang : Les esclaves du monde moderne, Folio (Gallimard), 2014 Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)., Grasset, 2012 Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)., photographs by Patrick Robert
Novels
  • La Cache, Stock, collection bleue, 2015 Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)..[6]Prix Femina and Prix des prix littéraires 2015[2]

References

[edit | edit source]
  1. ^ Several databases of authority records and websites containing them erroneously give him the date of birth of his uncle Christian, born in 1944. According to the site of genealogy Geneanet, he was born 10 July 1962 at Boulogne-Billancourt.
  2. ^ a b Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  3. ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  4. ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  5. ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  6. ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).

Lua error in Module:Authority_control at line 153: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).