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Pierre Assouline

Producer, Actor, Director, Additional CreditsBorn April 17, 1953 (72 years)
Pierre Assouline (born 17 April 1953) is a French writer and journalist. He was born in Casablanca, Morocco to a Jewish family. 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; Hergé, 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 république des livres".

Assouline was the editor of La Révolution Wikipédia, a collection of essays by postgraduate journalism students under his supervision. Assouline contributed the preface.

On 7 January 2007, Assouline published a blog post criticizing the Wikipedia entry on the Dreyfus Affair.

Source: Article "Pierre Assouline" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Known For

  • The Experiment
  • Conspirators of Pleasure
  • L.A. Without a Map
  • Vanaprastham
  • Babaji, an Indian Love Story

Pierre Assouline Filmography

1999
1998
1996
Conspirators of Pleasure · as Co-Producer
1994
Pigalle · as Co-Producer

2019
Le doc Stupéfiant (TV Series) · as Self
2018
Passage des Arts (TV Series) · as Self
2017
2008
La Grande Librairie (TV Series) · as Self
2006
On n'est pas couché (TV Series) · as Self
1998
Roll on Sunday (TV Series) · as Self
1991
A book one day (TV Series) · as Self
1975
Apostrophes (TV Series) · as Self

2018
She · as Creative Producer
2010
The Experiment · as Supervising Producer India
2009
Babaji, an Indian Love Story · as Supervising Producer
1999
Vanaprastham · as Story

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