Jean Philippe Rolin (born June 14, 1949, Boulogne-Billancourt) is a French writer and journalist. [1] He received the Albert Londres Prize for journalism in 1988, and his novel L'organisation received the Medicis award in 1996.
His brother Olivier Rolin is also a writer.
As students, Rolin and his brother participated in the May 1968 uprising[ clarification needed ].
The Prix Goncourt is a prize in French literature, given by the académie Goncourt to the author of "the best and most imaginative prose work of the year". The prize carries a symbolic reward of only 10 euros, but results in considerable recognition and book sales for the winning author. Four other prizes are also awarded: prix Goncourt du Premier Roman, prix Goncourt de la Nouvelle, prix Goncourt de la Poésie (poetry) and prix Goncourt de la Biographie (biography). Of the "big six" French literary awards, the Prix Goncourt is the best known and most prestigious. The other major literary prizes include the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française, the Prix Femina, the Prix Renaudot, the Prix Interallié and the Prix Médicis.
The Prix Médicis is a French literary award given each year in November. It was founded in 1958 by Gala Barbisan and Jean-Pierre Giradoux. It is awarded to an author whose "fame does not yet match his talent."
Albert Londres was a French journalist and writer. One of the inventors of investigative journalism, Londres not only reported news but created it, and reported it from a personal perspective. He criticized abuses of colonialism such as forced labour. Albert Londres gave his name to a journalism prize, the Prix Albert-Londres, for Francophone journalists.
The Prix Valery Larbaud is a French literary prize created in 1967, ten years after writer Valery Larbaud's death, by L'Association Internationale des Amis de Valery Larbaud, an organization dedicated to the promotion of his works. The prize is awarded to writers of books the jurists feel "that Larbaud would have loved". It is always awarded in Vichy on the last weekend in May.
Sorj Chalandon is a French writer and journalist.
The Albert Londres Prize is the highest French journalism award, named in honor of journalist Albert Londres. Created in 1932, it was first awarded in 1933 and is considered the French equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize. Three laureates are awarded each year. The three categories are : "best reporter in the written press", "best audiovisual reporter" and "best reporting book".
Dominique Rolin was a Belgian novelist.
Jean-Noël Pancrazi is a French author.
Mathieu Lindon is a French journalist and writer. He is the youngest son of the publisher Jérôme Lindon, and the first cousin of actor Vincent Lindon. He won the Médicis Prize in 2011.
The Prix de l'essai is an annual French essay prize awarded by the Académie française. It was created in 1971 by the Fondation Broquette-Gonin. It is awarded for an individual essay or for the collected works of an essayist. The prize sum was 1000 euros in 2015.
The Prix de la langue française is chronologically the first grand prix of the literary season in France.
The Prix Jean-Freustié is a French literary prize created in 1987 by Christiane Teurlay-Freustié, second wife of writer and publisher Jean Freustie (1914–1983) to which it pays tribute, and his friends Nicole and Frédéric Vitoux as well as writer Bernard Frank. It rewards a French-speaking writer for a prose work: a novel, short story, autobiography, biography or essay. The prize is awarded annually.
Jérôme Garcin is a French journalist and writer. He heads the cultural section of the Nouvel Observateur, produces and hosts the radio program Le Masque et la Plume on France Inter, and is a member of the reading committee of the Comédie-Française.
Jakuta Alikavazovic is a French writer. Her debut novel Corps volatils was awarded the prix Goncourt du premier roman. In 2021, her latest novel Night As It Falls was published in the United Kingdom by Faber & Faber.
The grand prix de littérature de la SGDL is a French literary prize created by the Société des gens de lettres in 1947 in order to reward an author for the whole of his work, and which is given during the spring session of the society.
Jean-François Delassus is a French journalist and documentaries director. He has been working for France Inter and Europe 1 and was Far East correspondent for Le Figaro.
René Mauriès was a 20th-century French journalist, reporter and writer.
Jean Bertolino is a French journalist and writer.
François Debré was a French writer and journalist. Winner of the Albert Londres Prize in 1977, he was a member of the Société des gens de lettres.
The Centre de formation des journalistes de Paris is the journalism school of Paris-Panthéon-Assas University, located in Paris, France.
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