Edwy Plenel

Hervé Edwy Plenel (; born 31 August 1952) is a French political journalist.

Biography

Early life

Plenel spent his childhood in Martinique and his youth in Algiers, Algeria. He studied at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris.

Career

His career began in 1976 as a journalist for ''Rouge'', the official newspaper of the Trotskyist Revolutionary Communist League (LCR – ''Ligue communiste révolutionnaire''). He briefly worked for ''Le Matin de Paris'' in 1980, before moving to the French newspaper ''Le Monde'', where he worked as the paper's education editor (1980–82), legal columnist (1982–90), a reporter (1991), head of the legal department (1992–94), chief editor (1994–95), assistant editorial director (1995–96), editor (1996–2000), and editor-in-chief (2000–04).

From 1985 to 1986, while working for ''Le Monde'', he was one of the targets of a wiretapping scandal perpetrated by a secret presidential anti-terrorism cell, which he had implicated in the "Irish of Vincennes" affair for framing three Irish nationals on terrorism charges.

In 2001, he was awarded the Prix Médicis essai for his essay ''Secrets de jeunesse'' (Secrets of Youth).''Secrets de jeunesse'' de Edwy Plenel
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He resigned from the editorial staff of ''Le Monde'' in November 2004, and left the newspaper on 31 October 2005. He is currently the publisher of ''Mediapart'', an Internet-based subscription journal which he founded in 2008.

Bibliography

* ''L'Effet Le Pen'' (with Alain Rollat), Paris, La Découverte-Le Monde, 1984.
* ''La République inachevée. L'État et l'école en France'', Paris, Payot, 1985 ; Stock, 1997 ; Biblio « Essais », 1999.
* ''Mourir à Ouvéa. Le tournant calédonien'' (with Alain Rollat), Paris, La Découverte-Le Monde, 1988.
* ''Voyage avec Colomb'', Paris, Le Monde-Éditions, 1991 (in Japanese : Shobun-sha, 1992).
* ''La Part d'ombre'', Paris, Stock, 1992 ; Gallimard, « Folio Actuel », 1994.
* ''Un temps de chien'', Paris, Stock, 1994 ; Gallimard, « Folio Actuel », 1996.
* ''Les Mots volés'', Paris, Stock, 1997 ; Gallimard, « Folio Actuel », 1999.
* ''L'Épreuve'', Paris, Stock, 1999.
* ''Secrets de jeunesse'', Paris, Stock, 2001 ( prix Médicis essai) ; Gallimard, « Folio », 2003.
* ''La Découverte du monde'', Paris, Stock, 2002 ; Gallimard, « Folio Actuel », 2004 (in Korean : Maumsan, 2005).
* ''Procès'', Paris, Stock, 2006 (prix du ''Journal du Centre'') ; Gallimard, « Folio », 2007.
* ''Le Journaliste et le Président'', Paris, Stock, 2006.
* ''Chroniques marranes'', Paris, Stock, 2007.
* ''Combat pour une presse libre. Le manifeste de Mediapart'', Paris, Galaade, 2009 (in Spanish : Edhasa, 2012 ; in Arabic : Sefsafa, 2015).
* ''Le Président de trop. Vertus de l'antisarkozysme, vices du présidentialisme'', Paris, Don Quichotte, 2011.
* ''Le 89 arabe'' (with Benjamin Stora), Paris, Stock, 2011.
* ''Notre France'' (with Farouk Mardam Bey and Elias Sanbar, 2014 ; La Découverte/Poche, 2016 (prix Fetkann de la mémoire), (in Arabic : Al Doha Magazine, 2015 ; in English : Verso, 2016).
* ''La Troisième Equipe. Souvenirs de l'affaire Greenpeace'', Paris, Don Quichotte, 2015; Seuil, « Points », 2016.
* ''Dire nous. Contre les peurs et les haines, nos causes communes'', Paris, Don Quichotte, 2016.
* ''Voyage en terres d'espoir'', Paris, Editions de l'Atelier, 2016.
* ''Le devoir d'hospitalité'', Paris, Bayard, 2017.
* ''La valeur de l'information'', Paris, Don Quichotte, 2018.

References

External links

Le blog de Edwy Plenel
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Plenel, Edwy
Writers from Nantes
1952 births
Living people
20th-century French journalists
21st-century French journalists
20th-century French essayists
21st-century French essayists
Revolutionary Communist League (France) politicians
French newspaper editors
Sciences Po alumni
French people of Breton descent
French male writers
Prix Médicis essai winners