Jean-Baptiste Harang (born 4 April 1949 in Chaulgnes, Nièvre) is a French writer and journalist.
Life Jean-Baptiste Harang started working as a journalist at Libération in 1978 before he held the literary critic column from 1998 to 2007.Tous les articles de Jean-Baptiste Harang in Libération. He later worked for Le Magazine Littéraire.
He published his first novel, Le Contraire du coton, in 1993 and received the Inter Book Prize in 2007 for La Chambre de la Stella, an autobiographical novel whose plot is located at Dun-le-Palestel (in Creuse), the native village of his paternal family.
Work 1993: Le Contraire du coton, éditions Grasset 1994: Les Spaghettis d'Hitler, éd. Grasset 1996: Gros Chagrin, éd. Grasset 1998: Théodore disparaît, éd. Grasset 2004: L’art est difficile, éditions Julliard 2006: La Chambre de la Stella, éd. Grasset – Inter Book Prize 2007 2008: Prenez un coq : Trente-cinq façons de passer du coq à l'âne à lire au jour le jour, 2009: Olivier Estoppey : L'Homme des lisières : Du dessin à l'installation monumentale, avec Nicolas Raboud et Pierre Starobinski 2006: Nos cœurs vaillants, éd. Grasset – Jean-Giono Jury Prize 2010 2013: Bordeaux-Vintimille,About the . éd. Grasset - Prix Henri de Régnier, bestowed by the Académie française in 2013
References
External links Jean-Baptiste Harang on France Culture Jean-Baptiste Harang at Grasset Jean-Baptiste Harang on France Inter Jean-Baptiste Harang on the site of the Académie française Jean-Baptiste Harang : La chambre de Stella interview on INA.fr