Jean Bertolino (born 31 March 1936 in Marseille) is a French journalist and writer.

Biography

A former student at the École supérieure de journalisme de Paris (class 1959–1961), a senior reporter and war correspondent, Bertolino worked for La Croix, Le Monde, Le Figaro and several provincial dailies. He was awarded the Albert Londres Prize in 1967 for his coverage of Vietnam and Cambodia at war and the revolt of the Kurds in Iraq, published in the newspaper La Croix and reprinted by numerous foreign newspapers.

In 1987, he became responsible for the reporting department at TF1, a public channel with which he had been collaborating since 1983. From 1988 he was the producer of 52 sur la Une, a magazine whose last issue was presented in June 2001.[1]

He is also the author of novels.

Works

  • 1968: Vietnam sanglant, Stock
  • 1969: Les Trublions, Stock
  • 1974: Les Orangers de Jaffa, Éditions France-Empire
  • 1979: Albanie, la sentinelle de Staline, Éditions du Seuil
  • 1993: Histoires vécues, L'Archipel
  • 1997: Madame l'Etoile, Flammarion
  • 1998: La Frontière des fous, Flammarion
  • 2000: Le Chant du Farou, Alzieu
  • 2002: Chaman, Presses de la Cité
  • 2004: Fura-Tena, Presses de la Cité
  • 2010: Pour qu'il ne meure jamais, Calmann-Lévy
  • 2014: Et je te donnerai les trésors des ténèbres, Calmann-Lévy

Prizes

  • Prix Albert Londres 1967.[2]
  • Grand Prix de Poésie 2011 of the Société des poètes et artistes de France (SPAF) for all his writings in prose - articles, novels, great reports - and lyrics.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Les adieux de Jean Bertolino on the site LaDépêche.fr 27.06.2001
  2. ↑ For all of his work on the Vietnam War, the Kurds' war in Iraq, Cambodia and China
  3. ↑ Palmarès 2011 des Grands Prix Internationaux de Poésie sur le site de la SPAF Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine
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