Pierre Assouline
Assouline in Strasbourg , April 2009
Born	( 1953-04-17 ) 17 April 1953 (age 71) Casablanca , Morocco
Occupation	Novelist essayist biographer
Nationality	French
Notable works	Biography of Herge , Biography of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler , Lutetia
Notable awards	Le Prix Maison de la Presse (2005), Le Prix de la langue francaise (2007), Le prix Mediterranee (2011), Le prix litteraire Prince-Pierre-de-Monaco (2011)
Website
passouline .blog .lemonde .fr

Pierre Assouline (born 17 April 1953) is a French writer and journalist. He was born in Casablanca , Morocco to a Jewish family. ^[1] 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
• Herge , 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 republique des livres".

Assouline was the editor of La Revolution Wikipedia , a collection of essays about Wikipedia by postgraduate journalism students under his supervision. ^[2] Assouline contributed the preface. ^[3]

In January 2007 Assouline published a blog post criticizing Wikipedia's article on the Dreyfus Affair . ^[4]

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