Christophe Boltanski

Christophe Boltanski
Christophe Boltanski at salon du livre du Mans in 2015
Born	(1962-07-10) 10 July 1962 (age 63) Boulogne-Billancourt
Citizenship	French
Occupation(s)	journalist, writer, novelist
Employer(s)	Libération, Le Nouvel Obs
Parent	Luc Boltanski
Awards	Prix Bayeux-Calvados des correspondants de guerre 92000), Prix Femina (2015), Prix des prix littéraires (2015)
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Christophe Boltanski (born 10 July 1962^[1]) is a French journalist, writer and chronicler. He was awarded laureate of the 2015 Prix Femina prize for his novel La Cache,^[2] which is the basis for the film La Cache (The Safe House).

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

After he completed his studies in 1987 at the Centre de formation des journalistes,^[3] 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).^[4]

From 2007 to 2017, he worked 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".^[5]

Non-fiction Books

• Les Sept Vies de Yasser Arafat (with Jihan El-Tahri), Grasset, 1997 ISBN 978-2-246-49601-4
• Bethléem : 2000 ans de passion (with Farah Mébarki and Rémi Benali, at Éditions Tallandier, 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, Folio (Gallimard), 2014 ISBN 978-2-07-045646-8, Grasset, 2012 ISBN 978-2-246-76471-7, photographs by Patrick Robert

Novels

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