Christophe Boltanski (born 10 July 1962[1]) is a French journalist, writer and chronicler, laureate of the prix Femina 2015 for his novel La Cache.

Christophe Boltanski
Christophe Boltanski at salon du livre du Mans in 2015
Born	(1962-07-10) July 10, 1962 (age 60) Boulogne-Billancourt
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Biography

Christophe Boltanski is the son of sociologist Luc Boltanski and the nephew of linguist Jean-Élie Boltanski and visual artist Christian Boltanski.

After he completed his studies in 1987 at the Centre de formation des journalistes [fr],[2] Christophe Boltanski worked for the Le Progrès Egyptien (within the framework of his national service then for the daily Libération from 1989 to 2007 ; after being a war correspondent during the Gulf war, he was the correspondent of this newspaper in Jerusalem (1995–2000) and then in London (2000–2004).[3] Since 2007 he has been working for the weekly Le Nouvel Observateur, while collaborating on the website Rue 89.

In 2000 he was awarded the Prix Bayeux-Calvados des correspondants de guerre for a report on a mine in Congo, in the Nord-Kivu region: "Les Mineurs de l'enfer".[4]

Works

Essais

• Les Sept Vies de Yasser Arafat, Grasset, 1997 ISBN 978-2-246-49601-4
• Bethléem : 2000 ans de passion (with Farah Mébarki and Rémi Benali [fr]), at Éditions Tallandier [fr], 2000 ISBN 978-2-235-02278-1
• Chirac d'Arabie (Les Mirages d'une politique française) (with Éric Aeschimann), Grasset, 2006 ISBN 978-2-246-69121-1
• Minerais de sang : Les esclaves du monde moderne, coll. Folio, 2014 ISBN 978-2-07-045646-8, Grasset, 2012 ISBN 978-2-246-76471-7, photographs by Patrick Robert

Novel

• La Cache, Stock, collection bleue, 2015 ISBN 978-2-234-07637-2.[5] – Prix Femina and Prix des prix littéraires [fr] 2015[6]

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