Pierre Assouline
Casablanca, Morocco
Born: 1953-04-17
Biography:
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.
Credits
Le procès Céline | 2011-10-17 | |
Simenon est Maigret | 2023-10-14 | |
Victor Hugo : la face cachée du grand homme | Pierre Assouline | 2012-07-10 |
Passage des arts: Renoir et la petite fille au ruban bleu | 2019-01-01 | |
Le Petit Vingtième : le siècle de Tintin | Self | 1995-01-01 |
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