| Christophe Boltanski | |
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 Christophe Boltanski at salon du livre du Mans in 2015 | |
| Born | (1962-07-10) 10 July 1962 (age 62) Boulogne-Billancourt |
| Citizenship | French |
| Occupation(s) | journalist, writer |
| Employer(s) | Libération, Le Nouvel Obs |
| Parent | Luc Boltanski |
| Awards | Prix Femina (2015) |
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Christophe Boltanski (born 10 July 1962) is a French journalist, writer and chronicler, laureate of the 2015 Prix Femina prize for his novel La Cache.
Biography
Christophe Boltanski is the son of sociologist Luc Boltanski and the nephew of linguist Jean-Élie Boltanski and visual artist Christian Boltanski.
After he completed his studies in 1987 at the Centre de formation des journalistes, 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).
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".
Works
- Non-fiction Books
- Les Sept Vies de Yasser Arafat (with Jihan El-Tahri), Grasset, 1997 ISBN 978-2-246-49601-4
- Bethléem : 2000 ans de passion (with Farah Mébarki and Rémi Benali [fr]), at Éditions Tallandier [fr], 2000 ISBN 978-2-235-02278-1
- Chirac d'Arabie (Les Mirages d'une politique française) (with Éric Aeschimann), Grasset, 2006 ISBN 978-2-246-69121-1
- Minerais de sang : Les esclaves du monde moderne, coll. Folio, 2014 ISBN 978-2-07-045646-8, Grasset, 2012 ISBN 978-2-246-76471-7, photographs by Patrick Robert
- Novels
- La Cache, Stock, collection bleue, 2015 ISBN 978-2-234-07637-2. – Prix Femina and Prix des prix littéraires [fr] 2015
References
- 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.
- ^ Philippe Gelie (4 November 2015). "Le Prix Femina décerné à Christophe Boltanski". Retrieved 10 December 2016.
- "Le Trophée presse écrite du Prix Bayeux des correspondants de guerre attribué à Christophe Boltanski - CFJ". cfjparis.com. Archived from the original on 14 September 2017. Retrieved 10 December 2016.
- "Christophe Boltanski (auteur de La cache) - Babelio". babelio.com. Retrieved 10 December 2016.
- "Christophe Boltanski : son actualité sur France Inter". franceinter.fr. Retrieved 10 December 2016.
- "Christophe Boltanski révèle "la Cache" - 26 août 2015 - Bibliobs - L'Obs". bibliobs.nouvelobs.com. 26 August 2015. Retrieved 10 December 2016.