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Jean-Louis Ezine

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Jean-Louis Ezine in 2012 during Le Masque et la Plume [fr] radio program.

Jean-Louis Ezine, real name Jean-Louis Bunel[1] (born 24 September 1948 in Cabourg) is a French writer, journalist and radio host.

Biography

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Born Jean-Louis Bunel by the name of his mother before taking that of his father-in-law at the age of three,[2][1] Jean-Louis Ezine grew up at Lisieux in Normandy before studying literature and philosophy. While studying in Caen, he made his journalistic debut as a stringer in the weekly Pays d’Auge-Tribune.[3] He left for Paris, performed his military service in 1968/69 in Toulon, then in Fréjus and finally in Djibouti in the naval infantry. He joined the editorial staff of Pif Gadget. In 1972, he became a literary critic for Les Nouvelles littéraires, a journal of which he became editor-in-chief and literary director, and then entered in 1984 at the Nouvel Observateur where he is still working.[4] He also collaborated with the weekly L'Express.

From 8 January 1990, Jean-Louis Ezine held a daily three-minute column on France Culture,[5] taking the form of a humorous and often caustic humor note,[6] in the successive morning programs of the station: Culture matin, Tout arrive !, Pas la peine de crier [fr], then La Matinale. On July 19, 2013, he delivered his 5651st and latest chronicle[7] after the decision taken by the radio station to put a halt to the program. Ezine was also a member of the literary program Le Masque et la Plume [fr] on France Inter - of which he was a true pillar, and one of the speakers with the most singular tone[4] since the beginning of the 1990s.

In 2011, Ezine was a juror of the prix Françoise Sagan.[8]

Work

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Novels
  • 1983: La Chantepleure, éditions du Seuil, ISBN 2-02-006601-7
  • 2003: Un ténébreux, éditions du Seuil, ISBN 978-2-02-019342-9
  • 2009: Les Taiseux [fr], éditions Gallimard, ISBN 9782070126521prix Maurice Genevoix and prix Octave-Mirbeau
Collections of texts and interviews

References

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  1. ^ a b Jean-Louis Ezine, dans la douleur du silence by Jean-Claude Raspiengeas in La Croix 23 December 2009.
  2. ^ This is the subject of his autobiographical narrative Les Taiseux ("collection Folio [fr]", #5176 ISBN 978-2-07-044024-5 p.29) published in 2009,
  3. ^ Nicolas Mouchel, Jean-Louis Ezine de retour sur ses terres, Le Pays d'Auge, 29 October 2010.
  4. ^ a b Judgement of Jérôme Garcin in Portrait de Jean-Louis Ezine during the TV program La Grande Librairie [fr] 26 November 2009 on France 5.
  5. ^ La chronique de Jean-Louis Ezine 18 July 2013 on France Culture,
  6. ^ a b Jean-Louis Ezine, le réveil mutin by Angelo Rinaldi in L'Express du 30 juin 1994.
  7. ^ La chronique de Jean-Louis Ezine 19 July 2013 on France Culture.
  8. ^ dossier de presse du prix Françoise Sagan (2011). "Prix Françoise Sagan" (pdf).[permanent dead link], p. 2
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