Jean-Paul Dubois is a French

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 writer.

He is the author of several novels and travel pieces, and reports for Le Nouvel Observateur

Le Nouvel Observateur

Le Nouvel Observateur is a weekly French newsmagazine. Based in Paris, it is the most prominent French general information magazine in terms of audience and circulation ....

. His latest novel, Une vie française, published in French in 2004 and in English in 2007, is a saga of the French baby boom

Baby boom

A baby boom is any period marked by a greatly increased birth rate. This demographic phenomenon is usually ascribed within certain geographical bounds and when the number of annual births exceeds 2 per 100 women...

 generation, from the idealism of the 1960s to the consumerism of the 1990s. The French version of the novel won the Prix Femina

Prix Femina

The Prix Femina is a French literary prize created in 1904 by 22 writers for the magazine La Vie heureuse . The prize is decided each year by an exclusively female jury, although the authors of the winning works do not have to be women...

.

Works

• Kennedy et moi: roman, Seuil, 1996, ISBN 9782020285391
• Je pense à autre chose, Editions de l'Olivier, 1997, ISBN 9782879291444
• Si ce livre pouvait me rapprocher de toi, Éditions de l'Olivier, 1999, ISBN 9782879292182; Random House Digital, Inc. 2008, ISBN 9781400096787
  • A French Life, Penguin Books, 2008, ISBN 9780141024820

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