Pierre Assouline
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.
The Clouzot Scandal
as SelfGreat filmmakers claim the artistic influence of French director Henri-Georges Clouzot...
Movie pageLe Petit Vingtième : le siècle de Tintin
as SelfFrom the beginning, Hergé's work, Tintin's creator, was conditioned by the ideology of his...
Movie pageLes vendredis d'Apostrophes
as SelfHours and historical meetings, Pierre Assouline has composed an anthology of the best extracts...
Movie pageApostrophes
as SelfApostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and...
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