Daniel Rondeau
Daniel Rondeau | |
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Born | (1948-05-07) 7 May 1948 (age 76) Le Mesnil-sur-Oger, France |
Nationality | French |
Education | Panthéon-Assas University |
Occupation(s) | Writer Journalist Diplomat |
Known for | Member of the Académie Française |
Daniel Rondeau (born 7 May 1948) is a French writer, editor, and diplomat.[1][2] Born in Le Mesnil-sur-Oger, he studied law at Panthéon-Assas where the spirit of May 68 saw him embrace Maoism and join the proletariat by working from 1970 to 1974 in a factory in Nancy making insulation.[3][4] He worked for France Inter's Nord-Est radio station from 1977,[4] before moving to Paris, where he worked for the newspapers Libération (1982–1985) Le Nouvel Observateur (1985–1998) and L'Express (1998–2007).[1][2][5] He was French ambassador to Malta (2008–2011) and to UNESCO (2011–2013).[1][3] He has written fiction, reportage, literary criticism and political commentary, and for his oeuvre won the Grand prix de littérature Paul-Morand in 1998. After unsuccessfully standing for election to the Académie Française in 2011 and 2016, he was elected to seat 8 in 2019.[1][6]
Works
Title | Date | Notes |
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Chagrin lorrain | 1979 | Account of deindustrialisation in Lorraine |
L'Âge-Déraison, véritable biographie imaginaire de Johnny H | 1982 | Fictional biography of his friend Johnny Hallyday |
Trans-Europ-Express | 1984 | Anthology of Libération reportage |
Tanger | 1987 | Travelogue of Tangiers. |
L'enthousiasme | 1988 | Memoir of his time as a factory worker in Lorraine. Revised edition in 2006 was the second volume of his autobiography, Mémoire tu l'appelleras |
Pourquoi écrivez vous? | 1988 | Co-editor with Jean-François Fogel of an anthology of writers explaining their motivations. |
Les Tambours du Monde | 1989 | Novel |
Chronique du Liban rebelle 1988–1989 | 1991 | Account of his friend Michel Aoun's interim premiership at the end of the Lebanese Civil War. |
Portraits champenois | 1991 | Account of his home region of Champagne, with photographs by his brother Gérard Rondeau |
La Part du diable | 1992 | Novel |
Littérature notre ciel! | 1992 | Account of Heinrich Maria Ledig-Rowohlt [de] |
Les Fêtes partagées; Lectures et autres voyages | 1994 | Literary anthology |
Mitterrand et nous | 1994 | Account of the presidency of François Mitterrand |
Des hommes libres; La France libre par ceux qui l’ont faite | 1997 | Co-editor with Roger Stéphane of accounts by Free French resistance members |
Alexandrie | 1997 | Travelogue of Alexandria. Winner of the 1998 Prix des Deux Magots |
Johnny | 1999 | Anthology of journalistic interviews and portraits of Johnny Hallyday. Second edition 2009. |
Istanbul | 2002 | Travelogue of Istanbul. |
Dans la marche du temps | 2004 | Novel |
Camus ou les promesses de la vie | 2005 | Account of Albert Camus' life and work |
Les vignes de Berlin | 2006 | First volume of his autobiography, Mémoire tu l'appelleras |
Journal de lectures, 1999–2006 | 2007 | Anthology of literary articles from L'Express |
Carthage | 2008 | Travelogue and meditation on the ruins and history of Carthage |
Malta Hanina | 2012 | Account of Malta |
Vingt ans et plus | 2014 | Excerpts from his 1991–2012 diaries. Winner of the Prix Saint-Simon |
Boxing-Club | 2016 | Essays on boxing |
Mécaniques du chaos [fr] | 2017 | Novel. Winner of the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française |
La raison et le cœur | 2018 | Anthology of political and literary pieces written since 1984, some previously unpublished. |
Arrière-pays | 2021 | Novel |
Honours
- French
- Chevalier of the Legion of Honour[1]
- Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres[1]
- Chevalier of the Ordre du Mérite Maritime[1]
- Foreign (honorary)
- Officer of the National Order of Merit (Malta)[1]
- Commander of the National Order of the Cedar (Lebanon)[1]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Daniel Rondeau". Académie française. Retrieved 4 July 2020.
- ^ a b "Un nouvel immortel élu jeudi à l'Académie française". Le Point (in French). 8 December 2011. Retrieved 4 July 2020.
- ^ a b Van der Plaetsen, Jean-René (13 January 2012). "Son Excellence Daniel Rondeau". Le Figaro (in French). Retrieved 6 July 2020.
- ^ a b "Daniel Rondeau". Gala.fr (in French). Retrieved 6 July 2020.
- ^ "La Ferté-Vidame fête les livres dimanche 7 septembre". Eurélien.fr (in French). Conseil départemental d'Eure-et-Loir. 4 September 2014. Archived from the original on 27 September 2020. Retrieved 4 July 2020.
- ^ "Le Marnais Daniel Rondeau élu à l'Académie Française". France 3 Grand Est (in French). 6 June 2019. Retrieved 4 July 2020.
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