Christophe Boltanski (born 10 July 1962Several databases of authority records and websites containing them erroneously give him the date of birth of his uncle Christian, born in 1944. According to the site of genealogy Geneanet, he was born 10 July 1962 at Boulogne-Billancourt.) is a French journalist, writer and chronicler. He was awarded laureate of the 2015 Prix Femina prize for his novel La Cache, which is the basis for the film La Cache (The Safe House).
Biography Christophe Boltanski is the son of sociologist Luc Boltanski and the nephew of linguist Jean-Élie Boltanski and conceptual artist Christian Boltanski.
After he completed his studies in 1987 at the Centre de formation des journalistes, Christophe Boltanski worked for the Le Progrès Egyptien (within the framework of his national service then for the daily Libération from 1989 to 2007; after being a war correspondent during the Gulf War, he was the correspondent of this newspaper in Jerusalem (1995–2000) and then in London (2000–2004).
From 2007 to 2017, he worked for the weekly Le Nouvel Observateur, while collaborating on the website Rue 89.
In 2000 he was awarded the Prix Bayeux-Calvados des correspondants de guerre for a report on a mine in Congo, in the Nord-Kivu region: "Les Mineurs de l'enfer".
Works Non-fiction Books Les Sept Vies de Yasser Arafat (with Jihan El-Tahri), Grasset, 1997 Bethléem : 2000 ans de passion (with Farah Mébarki and Rémi Benali, at Éditions Tallandier, 2000 Chirac d'Arabie (Les Mirages d'une politique française) (with Éric Aeschimann), Grasset, 2006 Minerais de sang : Les esclaves du monde moderne, Folio (Gallimard), 2014 , Grasset, 2012 , photographs by Patrick Robert
Novels La Cache, Stock, collection bleue, 2015 . – Prix Femina and Prix des prix littéraires 2015
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