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Daniel Rondeau

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French diplomat and writer

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Daniel Rondeau is a French writer, editor, and diplomat. Born in Le Mesnil-sur-Oger, he studied law at Panthéon-Assas where the spirit of May 68 saw him embrace Maoism and join the proletariat by working from 1970 to 1974 in a factory in Nancy making insulation.

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2017Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française
2016Jules Rimet Prize
2014Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres‎
1998Prix des Deux Magots
1998Grand prix de littérature Paul-Morand
1988Eugène Dabit populist novel award
Knight of the Legion of Honour
Member of the Order of Maritime Merit
National Maltese Order of Merit
Commander of the National Order of the Cedar
honorary doctor of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations

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Daniel Rondeau is a French writer, editor, and diplomat. Born in Le Mesnil-sur-Oger, he studied law at Panthéon-Assas where the spirit of May 68 saw him embrace Maoism and join the proletariat by working from 1970 to 1974 in a factory in Nancy making insulation. He worked for France Inter's Nord-Est radio station from 1977, before moving to Paris, where he worked for the newspapers Libération (1982-1985) Le Nouvel Observateur (1985-1998) and L'Express (1998-2007). He was French ambassador to Malta (2008-2011) and to UNESCO (2011-2013). He has written fiction, reportage, literary criticism and political commentary, and for his oeuvre won the Grand prix de littérature Paul-Morand in 1998. After unsuccessfully standing for election to the Académie Française in 2011 and 2016, he was elected to seat 8 in 2019.

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France
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Writers
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Writer / Author
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living
Dates
Born 1948 · age 78
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11 languages

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