Christophe Boltanski (born 10 July 1962) is a French journalist, writer and chronicler, laureate of the

prix Femina The Prix Femina is a French literary prize created in 1904 by 22 writers for the magazine ''La Vie heureuse'' (today known as '' Femina''). The prize is decided each year by an exclusively female jury. They reward French-language works written ...

2015 for his novel ''La Cache''.

Biography

Christophe Boltanski is the son of sociologist

Luc Boltanski Luc Boltanski (born 4 January 1940) is a French sociologist, Professor at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, Paris, and founder of the Groupe de Sociologie Politique et Morale, known as the leading figure in the new "pragmati ...

and the nephew of linguist Jean-Élie Boltanski and visual artist

Christian Boltanski Christian Liberté Boltanski (6 September 1944 – 14 July 2021) was a French sculptor, photographer, painter, and film maker. He is best known for his photography installations and contemporary French conceptual style. Early life Boltanski wa ...

. After he completed his studies in 1987 at the , Christophe Boltanski worked for the '' Le Progrès Egyptien'' (within the framework of his

national service National service is the system of voluntary government service, usually military service. Conscription is mandatory national service. The term ''national service'' comes from the United Kingdom's National Service (Armed Forces) Act 1939. The ...

then for the daily ''

Libération ''Libération'' (), popularly known as ''Libé'' (), is a daily newspaper in France, founded in Paris by Jean-Paul Sartre and Serge July in 1973 in the wake of the protest movements of May 1968. Initially positioned on the far-left of France ...

'' from 1989 to 2007 ; after being a war correspondent during the

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, he was the correspondent of this newspaper in Jerusalem (1995–2000) and then in London (2000–2004). Since 2007 he has been working for the weekly ''

Le Nouvel Observateur (), previously known as (1964–2014), is a weekly French news magazine. Based in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris, it is the most prominent French general information magazine in terms of audience and circulation. Its current editor is Cécile ...

'', while collaborating on the website ''

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''. In 2000 he was awarded the

Prix Bayeux-Calvados des correspondants de guerre The Bayeux Calvados-Normandy Award for war correspondents (French: Prix Bayeux Calvados-Normandie des correspondants de guerre), previously the Bayeux-Calvados Awards for war correspondents, is an annual prize awarded since 1994, by the city of Bay ...

for a report on a mine in Congo, in the

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region: "Les Mineurs de l'enfer".

Works

;Essais * ''Les Sept Vies de Yasser Arafat'', Grasset, 1997 * ''Bethléem : 2000 ans de passion'' (with Farah Mébarki and ), at , 2000 * ''Chirac d'Arabie (Les Mirages d'une politique française)'' (with Éric Aeschimann), Grasset, 2006 * ''Minerais de sang : Les esclaves du monde moderne'', coll. Folio, 2014 , Grasset, 2012 , photographs by Patrick Robert ;Novel * ''La Cache'',

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, collection bleue, 2015 . –

Prix Femina The Prix Femina is a French literary prize created in 1904 by 22 writers for the magazine ''La Vie heureuse'' (today known as '' Femina''). The prize is decided each year by an exclusively female jury. They reward French-language works written ...

and 2015

References

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