Olivier Guez

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Olivier Guez (born 15 June 1974 Strasbourg) is a French journalist, essayist and writer. He won a Prix Renaudot.[1]

Life[]

Olivier Guez

He grew up in Strasbourg.. Her maternal grandmother introduced her to reading at a very young age.

He studied at Sciences-Po Strasbourg, the London School of Economics and the College of Europe. He worked as a freelance journalist, for the New York Times, Le Monde, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Le Figaro Magazine, L'Express, Le Point,Politique Internationale, Der Freitag, Der Tages Anzeiger, Das Magazin and Il Foglio.

Between 2000 and 2005, he worked as a reporter in the International Economy Department of La Tribune. He wrote Surveys and reports on Central Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, the European Union, and the geopolitics of oil. He wrote his first book, La Grande Alliance, in collaboration with Frédéric Encel,

In 2017, he wrote a biographical novel The Disappearance of Josef Mengele, (awarded the Renaudot Prize). It documents Josef Mengele (1911-1979), Nazi German officer, war criminal who worked as a doctor at Auschwitz.[2][3][4]

Works[]

  • The Grand Alliance. De la Chechnyaie à l'Irak, un nouvel ordre mondial, with Frédéric Encel, éditions Flammarion, 2003, 304 p. ISBN 2-08-210281-5
  • The Impossible Return. Une histoire des Juifs en Allemagne depuis 1945, éditions Flammarion, 2007, 336 p. ISBN 978-2-08-210554-5
  • La Chute du mur, with Jean-Marc Gonin, fayard editions, 2009, 359 p. ISBN 978-2-213-63312-1
  • American Spleen. Un voyage d'Olivier Guez au cœur du déclin américain, éditions Flammarion, coll. « At large », 2012, 270 p. ISBN 978-2-08-126952-1 [5]
  • Éloge de l'esquive, éditions Flammarion, 2014, 107 p. ISBN 978-2-246-81189-3
  • Les Révolutions de Jacques Koskas, éditions Belfond, 2014, 331 p. ISBN 978-2-7144-5792-9 [6]
  • The Disappearance of Josef Mengele, éditions Grasset, 2017, 240 p. ISBN 978-2-246-85587-3

References[]

  1. ^ Samama, Laurent David. "Olivier Guez : "Faire des hiérarchies de l'horreur n'a pas grand sens" - Les Inrocks". www.lesinrocks.com/ (in French). Retrieved 2021-06-18.
  2. ^ Match, Paris. "Sur les traces de Mengele : le talent monstre d'Olivier Guez". parismatch.com (in French). Retrieved 2021-06-18.
  3. ^ Nonnenmacher, Kai (2018-05-05). "Mengeles Verschwinden: Olivier Guez an der Schwelle der Zeitzeugenschaft". Romanische Studien (in German). 0 (0): 383–398. ISSN 2364-4753.
  4. ^ "Le romancier Olivier Guez en combat singulier contre Mengele". Le Monde.fr (in French). 2017-09-24. Retrieved 2021-06-18.
  5. ^ ""American Spleen", d'Olivier Guez : sur les routes de l'Amérique en crise". Le Monde.fr (in French). 2012-02-14. Retrieved 2021-06-18.
  6. ^ Les Révolutions de Jacques Koskas, Olivier Guez (in French).
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