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Pierre Assouline

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Pierre Assouline

Known For

Writing

Gender

Male

Birthday

Apr 17, 1953 (73 years old)

Place of Birth

Casablanca, Morocco

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. Source: Article "Pierre Assouline" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Known For

Acting
2023Simenon est MaigretSelf
2019Renoir and the Girl with a Blue Ribbon
2018Rembob'InaSelf
2017The Clouzot ScandalSelf
2015Les vendredis d'ApostrophesSelf
2012Victor Hugo : la face cachée du grand hommePierre Assouline
2011Le procès Céline
1998Vivement dimancheSelf
1995Le Petit Vingtième : le siècle de TintinSelf
1975ApostrophesSelf
Production
1999VanaprasthamProducer
1999L.A. Without a MapProducer
1996Conspirators of PleasureCo-Producer
Directing
2024De Gaulle vs Churchill : Mémoires de guerre, guerre des mémoiresDirector
2016The Lévi-Strauss CenturyDirector
2015Les vendredis d'ApostrophesDirector
-The Marguerite Duras CenturyDirector
Writing
2016The Lévi-Strauss CenturyWriter
1999VanaprasthamStory
-The Marguerite Duras CenturyWriter