Jean-Paul Kauffmann

Jean-Paul Kauffmann was born in 1944. Journalist in the Morning of Paris since 1977, then international reporter with the Event of Thursday, it is removed in Beirut with Michel Seurat on May 22nd, 1985 with the Lebanon. Contrary to Michel Seurat, died in detention, it was released the May 4th 1988.

In 1994, it creates the review the Amateur of cigar. Writer, it published the Arch of Kerguelen (Flammarion, 1993); The Darkroom of Longwood (the Roundtable, 1997) which received the Price Fémina test, the Price Roger Nimier, Grand Prix Lira-RTL, the Price Jules Verne and the Price Joseph Kessel; The Fight with the Angel (the Roundtable, 2001) and 31, gone Damour - Raymond Guerin 1905-1955 (the Roundtable/Berg nternational, 2004). All these books have a common set of themes: enfermement but never evokes directly its experiment of Otage.

In 2002, Jean-Paul Kauffmann receives the Price of literature Paul Morand given by the French Academy.

For the first time in 2007, in the House of the return (the Nile editions, 2007), it evokes its captivity, its position of hostage and the moments which followed its return, the painful relearning of a life " normale" , its impossibility to read, impassioned to him literature. As in all the books of Jean-Paul Kauffman, all is written on a tone felted through the history of the purchase of a house, den or hopper to return towards its family, towards the life.

It one is also distinguished amateur from Vin S of Bordeaux.

Publications

  • Voyage to Bordeaux : photographs of Michel Guillard. - Deposit and consignment office, 1989.

  • Bordeaux found . - Except trade, 1989.
  • the arch of Kerguelen: voyages to the islands of desolation . - Flammarion, 1993. Rééd. " Small Vermillon" , the Roundtable, 2002.
  • the darkroom of Longwood: the voyage to Sainte-Hélène . - the Roundtable, 1997, Price Roger-Nimier
  • the morals of Yquem: discussions with Alexandre de Lur . - Mollat-Grasset, 1999.
  • the Fight with the Angel . - the Roundtable, 2001.
  • 31, gone Damour: Raymond Guerin, 1905-1955 . - the Roundtable, 2004.
  • the house of the return . - the Nile editions, 2007.
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