About the talk "Comment Écrire"

About Pierre Assouline

Born in 1953 in Casablanca. As a journalist, he is a regular contributor to “L'Histoire” as a columnist and member of the scientific committee, to the blog “La République des livres”, which he set up in 2005, and to various newspapers and magazines. As a writer, he is the author of some forty books, including ten biographies and as many novels, as well as dictionaries, investigations and documents.

As a radio broadcaster, he has produced series and theatrical adaptations for France-Culture. As a television producer, he has made five documentaries on writers for Arte and one on Bernard Pivot and Apostrophes for France 2. For the past twenty-five years, he has taught literary writing at Sciences Po-Paris and occasionally abroad (Société de lecture de Genève, École polytechnique de Zurich...). He is a member of the Académie Goncourt.