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French journalist (born 1961)
Florence Aubenas
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![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/FIG_2015_-_Florence_Aubenas_03.jpg/220px-FIG_2015_-_Florence_Aubenas_03.jpg) Florence Aubenas in 2015
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Born
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1961-02-06
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6 February 1961
(age 63)
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Nationality
| French
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Education
| Centre de formation des journalistes
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Occupation
| Journalist
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Florence Aubenas
(born 6 February 1961) is a French journalist.
Biography
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She was born in
Brussels
, 6 February 1961, from French parents and studied journalism at the
Centre de Formation des Journalistes
in Paris.
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She worked as a reporter for
Liberation
,
Le Nouvel Observateur
and
Le Monde
, among others. She was kidnapped in 2005 while covering the
Iraq war
and was held captive for five months. Her books include
Grand Reporter
(2009),
Le Quai de Ouistreham
(2010) and
En France
(2014).
Le Quai de Ouistreham
, set in the port of
Ouistreham
in northern France, won several literary prizes (the
Prix Joseph-Kessel
, the
Globe de Cristal
and the
Jean Amila-Meckert prize
) and has been compared to
George Orwell
's classic work on the
Great Depression
,
The Road to Wigan Pier
.
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