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Pierre Assouline

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Pierre Assouline
Assouline in Strasbourg, April 2009
Assouline in Strasbourg, April 2009
Born (1953-04-17) 17 April 1953 (age 71)
Casablanca, Morocco
Occupation
  • Novelist
  • essayist
  • biographer
NationalityFrench
Notable worksBiography of Hergé, Biography of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Lutetia
Notable awardsLe Prix Maison de la Presse (2005), Le Prix de la langue française (2007), Le prix Méditerranée (2011), Le prix littéraire Prince-Pierre-de-Monaco (2011)
Website
passouline.blog.lemonde.fr

Pierre Assouline (born 17 April 1953) is a French writer and journalist. He was born in Casablanca, Morocco to a Jewish family.[1] 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:

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 about Wikipedia by postgraduate journalism students under his supervision.[2] Assouline contributed the preface.[3]

In January 2007 Assouline published a blog post criticizing Wikipedia's article on the Dreyfus Affair.[4]

References

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  1. ^ "Pierre Assouline".
  2. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 February 2019. Retrieved 19 February 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. ^ "La revolution wikipedia". cultura.com (in French). Retrieved 17 April 2023.
  4. ^ "Les erreurs traquées de Wikipédia". 9 July 2007.