
Person
Pierre Assouline
Writing
- Known for
- Writing
- Born
- Apr 17, 1953
- From
- Casablanca, Morocco
Pierre Assouline (born 17 April 1953) is a French writer and journalist. He was born in Casablanca, Morocco to a Jewish family. He has published several novels and biographies, and also contributes articles for the print media and broadcasts for radio. As a biographer, he has covered a diverse and eclectic range of subjects, including: Henri Cartier-Bresson, the legendary photographer; Marcel Dassault, the aeronautics pioneer; Gaston Gallimard, the publisher; Hergé, the creator of The Adventures of Tintin; Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, the art dealer; Georges Simenon, the detective novelist and creator of Inspector Maigret. 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". Assouline was the editor of La Révolution Wikipédia, a collection of essays by postgraduate journalism students under his supervision. Assouline contributed the preface. On 7 January 2007, Assouline published a blog post criticizing the Wikipedia entry on the Dreyfus Affair. Source: Article "Pierre Assouline" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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The Clouzot Scandal

Vivement dimanche

Apostrophes

C à vous

Le Petit Vingtième : le siècle de Tintin

Simenon est Maigret

Les vendredis d'Apostrophes

Le procès Céline

Victor Hugo : la face cachée du grand homme

Renoir and the Girl with a Blue Ribbon

Rembob'Ina

The Marguerite Duras Century

Conspirators of Pleasure

Vanaprastham

De Gaulle vs Churchill : Mémoires de guerre, guerre des mémoires

L.A. Without a Map

The Lévi-Strauss Century

Le Siècle de Cartier-Bresson