Pierre Assouline

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.

Pierre Assouline
Assouline in Strasbourg, April 2009
Born	(1953-04-17) 17 April 1953 (age 72) Casablanca, Morocco
Occupation	Novelist essayist biographer
Nationality	French
Notable works	Biography of Hergé, Biography of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Lutetia
Notable awards	Le Prix Maison de la Presse (2005), Le Prix de la langue française (2007), Le prix Méditerranée (2011), Le prix littéraire Prince-Pierre-de-Monaco (2011)
Website
passouline.blog.lemonde.fr

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 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]