- Patrick Besson
Patrick Besson (born
1 June 1956 ) is a French writer and journalist.His father was Russian and his mother was Croatian. He published his first novel, "Early Mornings Of Love", in 1974, aged 17. He received a
Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française in 1985 for "Dara" and thePrix Renaudot in 1995 for "Braban".First of all a
Communist sympathizer, he is a literary chronicler with the newspaper "L'Humanité ". He also wrote for the newspaper "L'Idiot international ", whose editor isJean-Edern Hallier .During the
Yugoslav Wars , he supportedSerbia by publishing the book in particular against the slanderers of Serbia, which created tension with other intellectuals likeMichel Polac ,Romain Goupil andDidier Daeninckx . Attacks by Daeninckx led Besson to criticize him in a novel, called "Didier Denounces" (editions Gerard de Villiers).He wrote a poem, "Sonnet Pour Florence Rey", in dedication to the girl who went on a killing spree in Paris in 1994.
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