{{Short description|French journalist and writer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2024}} {{Infobox person | name = | image = Christophe Boltanski at Berlinale 2025.jpg | imagesize = | caption = Boltanski in 2025 | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1962|7|10|df=yes}} | birth_place = Boulogne-Billancourt | death_date = | death_place = | othername = | citizenship = French | occupation = journalist, writer, novelist | years_active = | employer = ''Libération'', ''Le Nouvel Obs'' | spouse = | parents = Luc Boltanski | awards = Prix Bayeux-Calvados des correspondants de guerre 92000), Prix Femina (2015), Prix des prix littéraires (2015) | signature = Signature christophe boltanski.png }}
'''Christophe Boltanski''' (born 10 July 1962<ref>Several 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 [http://gw.geneanet.org/wikifrat?&p=christophe&n=boltanski ''Geneanet''], he was born 10 July 1962 at Boulogne-Billancourt.</ref>) is a French journalist, writer and chronicler. He was awarded laureate of the 2015 Prix Femina prize for his novel ''La Cache'',<ref name=":0" /> 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,<ref name="cfjparis">{{cite web|url=http://www.cfjparis.com/evenements/actualites/2010/le-trophee-presse-ecrite-du-prix-bayeux-des-correspondants-de-guerre-attribue-a.html|publisher=cfjparis.com|title=Le Trophée presse écrite du Prix Bayeux des correspondants de guerre attribué à Christophe Boltanski - CFJ|accessdate=10 December 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170914130213/http://www.cfjparis.com/evenements/actualites/2010/le-trophee-presse-ecrite-du-prix-bayeux-des-correspondants-de-guerre-attribue-a.html|archive-date=14 September 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> 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).<ref name="babelio">{{cite web|url=http://www.babelio.com/auteur/Christophe-Boltanski/102900|publisher=babelio.com|title=Christophe Boltanski (auteur de La cache) - Babelio|accessdate=10 December 2016}}</ref>
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".<ref name="franceinter">{{cite web|url=http://www.franceinter.fr/personne-christophe-boltanski|publisher=franceinter.fr|title=Christophe Boltanski : son actualité sur France Inter|accessdate=10 December 2016}}</ref>
== Works == ;Non-fiction Books * ''Les Sept Vies de Yasser Arafat'' (with Jihan El-Tahri), Grasset, 1997 {{ISBN| 978-2-246-49601-4}} * ''Bethléem : 2000 ans de passion'' (with Farah Mébarki and Rémi Benali, at Éditions Tallandier, 2000 {{ISBN|978-2-235-02278-1}} * ''Chirac d'Arabie (Les Mirages d'une politique française)'' (with Éric Aeschimann), Grasset, 2006 {{ISBN|978-2-246-69121-1}} * ''Minerais de sang : Les esclaves du monde moderne'', Folio (Gallimard), 2014 {{ISBN|978-2-07-045646-8}}, Grasset, 2012 {{ISBN| 978-2-246-76471-7}}, photographs by Patrick Robert
;Novels * ''La Cache'', Stock, collection bleue, 2015 {{ISBN| 978-2-234-07637-2}}.<ref name="nouvelobs">{{cite web|url=http://bibliobs.nouvelobs.com/les-ecrivains-de-l-obs/20150824.OBS4626/christophe-boltanski-revele-la-cache.html|publisher=bibliobs.nouvelobs.com|title=Christophe Boltanski révèle "la Cache" - 26 août 2015 - Bibliobs - L'Obs|date=26 August 2015 |accessdate=10 December 2016}}</ref> – Prix Femina and Prix des prix littéraires 2015<ref name=":0">{{Cite web | author = Philippe Gelie | title = Le Prix Femina décerné à Christophe Boltanski | date = 4 November 2015 | url = http://www.lefigaro.fr/livres/2015/11/04/03005-20151104ARTFIG00186-le-prix-femina-decerne-a-christophe-boltanski.php | accessdate = 10 December 2016 }}</ref>
== References == {{Reflist}}
{{Authority control}} {{Prix Femina}}
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