Biography
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.
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Filmography
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Movies 17
self 8
Director 4
TV Shows 3
Producer 3
Writer 2
De Gaulle vs Churchill : Mémoires de guerre, guerre des mémoires (2024)
Simenon est Maigret (2023)
Le Doc stupéfiant (2019)
Passage des arts: Renoir et la petite fille au ruban bleu (2019)
The Clouzot Scandal (2017)
The Lévi-Strauss Century (2016)
Les vendredis d'Apostrophes (2015)
The Century of Le Corbusier (2015)
Victor Hugo : la face cachée du grand homme (2012)
Le Siècle de Cartier-Bresson (2012)
Le procès Céline (2011)
Gallimard, le roi lire (2011)
Lulu (2002)
Vanaprastham (1999)
L.A. Without a Map (1999)
Vivement dimanche (1998)
Conspirators of Pleasure (1996)
Le Petit Vingtième : le siècle de Tintin (1995)
Apostrophes (1975)
The Marguerite Duras Century
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Known ForWriting
GenderMale
Birthday1953-04-17 (71 years old)
Birth PlaceCasablanca, Morocco
CitizenshipsFrance
AwardsPrix de la langue française, Prince Pierre Award, Prix des libraires
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