Pierre Assouline

Born: 1953-04-17

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

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Released: 2017-10-17

Great filmmakers claim the artistic influence of French director Henri-Georges Clouzot...

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Le procès Céline

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Released: 2011-10-17

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Le Petit Vingtième : le siècle de Tintin

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Released: 1995-01-01

From the beginning, Hergé's work, Tintin's creator, was conditioned by the ideology of his...

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Victor Hugo : la face cachée du grand homme

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Released: 2012-07-10

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Les vendredis d'Apostrophes

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Released: 2015-11-06

40 years of "Apostrophes". Hours and historical meetings, Pierre Assouline has composed an...

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Simenon est Maigret

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Released: 2023-10-14

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Apostrophes

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First aired: 1975-01-10

Apostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and...

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Vivement dimanche

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First aired: 1998-09-20

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