Pierre Assouline

Pierre Assouline (born 17 April 1953) is a French writer and journalist. He was born in Casablanca, Morocco to a Jewish family.[1] He has published several novels and biographies, and also contributes articles for the print media and broadcasts for radio.

Pierre Assouline
Assouline in Strasbourg, April 2009
Assouline in Strasbourg, April 2009
Born (1953-04-17) 17 April 1953
Casablanca, Morocco
Occupation
  • Novelist
  • essayist
  • biographer
NationalityFrench
Notable worksBiography of Hergé, Biography of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Lutetia
Notable awardsLe Prix Maison de la Presse (2005), Le Prix de la langue française (2007), Le prix Méditerranée (2011), Le prix littéraire Prince-Pierre-de-Monaco (2011)
Website
passouline.blog.lemonde.fr

As a biographer, he has covered a diverse and eclectic range of subjects, including:

Several of these books have been translated into English and the Henri Cartier-Bresson biography has been translated into Chinese.

As a journalist, Assouline has worked for the leading French publications Lire and Le Nouvel Observateur. He also publishes a blog, "La république des livres".

Wikipedia

Assouline was the editor of La Révolution Wikipédia, a collection of essays by postgraduate journalism students under his supervision.[2] Assouline contributed the preface.[3]

On 7 January 2007, Assouline published a blog post criticizing the Wikipedia entry on the Dreyfus Affair.[4]

References

  1. "Pierre Assouline".
  2. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 February 2019. Retrieved 19 February 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. "La revolution wikipedia". cultura.com (in French). Retrieved 17 April 2023.
  4. "Les erreurs traquées de Wikipédia". 9 July 2007.
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