Angelo Rinaldi (17 June 1939 – 7 May 2025) was a French writer and literary critic.
Biography
Rinaldi was the son of Pierre-François Rinaldi and Antoinette Pietri; after growing up in
Corsica
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he became a journalist. He initially worked as a reporter and court correspondent for the newspapers ''Nice-Matin'' and ''Paris-Jour'' and soon acquired a reputation as a writer and a sharp-penned literary critic. As a critic, he worked for ''
L'Express
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'', ''
Le Point'' and ''
Le Nouvel Observateur'' before becoming literary editor of ''
Le Figaro
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'', which he remained until his retirement.
Rinaldi was Corsican, and his books often contain detailed observations of Corsica and of the town of
Bastia
Bastia ( , , , ; ) is a communes of France, commune in the Departments of France, department of Haute-Corse, Corsica, France. It is located in the northeast of the island of Corsica at the base of Cap Corse. It also has the second-highest popu ...
where he grew up.
He received the Prix Pierre de Monaco for his body of work.
He was elected to
Seat 20 of the
Académie Française
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on 21 June 2001, succeeding
José Cabanis.
In 2011, Rinaldi resigned as president of the association after they awarded the
Prix Richelieu to the right-wing journalist
Éric Zemmour.
He died in Paris on 7 May 2025, aged 84.
Angelo Rinaldi, écrivain et membre de l'Académie Française, est mort
''Le Monde
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Bibliography
*1969 ''La Loge du Gouverneur'' (awarded the Fénéon Prize)
*1971 ''La Maison des Atlantes'' (Gallimard)
*1974 ''L'Éducation de l'oubli'' (Denoël)
*1977 ''Les Dames de France'' (Gallimard)
*1980 ''La Dernière Fête de l'Empire'' (Gallimard)
*1985 ''Les Jardins du Consulat'' (Gallimard)
*1987 ''Les Roses de Pline'' (Gallimard)
*1990 ''La Confession des collines'' (Gallimard)
*1993 ''Les jours ne s'en vont pas longtemps'' (Grasset)
*1997 ''Dernières nouvelles de la nuit'' (Grasset)
*1999 ''Service de presse. Chroniques'' (Plon)
*2000 ''Tout ce que je sais de Marie'' (Gallimard)
References
External links
*
L'Académie française
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1940 births
2025 deaths
People from Bastia
French people of Corsican descent
20th-century French novelists
21st-century French novelists
Members of the Académie Française
French literary critics
Prix Femina winners
French LGBTQ novelists
French male novelists
Prix Fénéon winners
20th-century French male writers
21st-century French male writers
French male non-fiction writers
21st-century French LGBTQ people