Gilles Lapouge is a French writer and journalist with the daily O Estado de São Paulo. He won the 2007 Prix Femina Essai.

Life

He gew up in Algeria

Algeria

Algeria , officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria , also formally referred to as the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of Northwest Africa with Algiers as its capital.In terms of land area, it is the largest country in Africa and the Arab...

, where his father was military.
After studying history and geography, he became a journalist.
In 1950 he moved to Brazil.
For three years he worked for the Brazilian newspaper O Estado de São Paulo, where he remains a correspondent in France for more than forty years.
Back in France, he worked in Le Monde

Le Monde

Le Monde is a French daily evening newspaper owned by La Vie-Le Monde Group and edited in Paris. It is one of two French newspapers of record, and has generally been well respected since its first edition under founder Hubert Beuve-Méry on 19 December 1944...

, the Figaro Littéraire and Combat

Combat (newspaper)

Combat was a French newspaper created during the Second World War. Originally a clandestine newspaper of the Resistance, it was headed by Albert Ollivier, Jean Bloch-Michel, Georges Altschuler and, most of all, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, André Malraux, Emmanuel Mounier, and then Raymond Aron...

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He participated in the Bernard Pivot

Bernard Pivot

Bernard Pivot, OC, CQ is a journalist, interviewer and host of French cultural television programmes. He is a member of the Académie Goncourt.-Biography:Pivot was born in Lyon, the son of grocers...

 program, "Ouvrez les guillemets" ("Open the quotes") which became Apostrophes". In France Culture

France Culture

France Culture is a French public radio channel and part of Radio France. Its programming encompasses a wide variety of features on historical, philosophical, sociopolitical, and scientific themes , as well as literary readings, radio plays, and experimental productions...

, he produced the show "Agora" and then "En étrange pays" ("in foreign countries").

He serves on the editorial board of La Quinzaine littéraire.
He appears at the Étonnants voyageurs festival at Saint-Malo

Saint-Malo

Saint-Malo is a walled port city in Brittany in northwestern France on the English Channel. It is a sub-prefecture of the Ille-et-Vilaine.-Demographics:The population can increase to up to 200,000 in the summer tourist season...

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Works

• Les Pirates, Payot, 1987
• Équinoxiale, Flammarion, Paris, 1977, ISBN 2-08-060963-7
• Un soldat en déroute, Folio
• Le Singe de la montre, 1982
• Utopie et civilisations, 1973
• La Révolution sans modèle, with François Châtelet
  François Châtelet
  François Châtelet was a historian of philosophy, political philosophy and professor in the socratic tradition. He was the husband of philosopher Noëlle Châtelet, the sister of Lionel Jospin....
  
   and Olivier Revault d'Allonnes, Mouton, 1974
• La Bataille de Wagram, Flammarion, Prix des Deux Magots, 1987
• La Folie Koenigsmark, A. Michel, 1996
• L'Incendie de Copenhague, A. Michel, Prix Cazes, 1996
• Le Bruit de la neige, A. Michel
• Besoin de mirages, Seuil, 1998
• Au revoir l’Amazonie, 2000 (publié sur Internet, au Brésil)
• La Mission des frontières, A. Michel, 2002
• Le Bois des amoureux, A. Michel, 2006
• L'Encre du voyageur, A. Michel, 2007
• La Légende de la géographie, A. Michel, 2009
• La Maison des lettres. Conversations avec Christophe Mercier, Phébus, 2009
• Dictionnaire amoureux du Brésil, Ed. Plon, Paris, 2011, ISBN 2259209254