Jean-Louis Ezine, real name Jean-Louis Bunel (born 24 September 1948 in Cabourg) is a French writer, journalist and radio host.
Biography
Born Jean-Louis Bunel by the name of his mother before taking that of his father-in-law at the age of three, Jean-Louis Ezine grew up at Lisieux in Normandy before studying literature and philosophy. While studying in Caen, he made his journalistic debut as a stringer in the weekly Pays d’Auge-Tribune. He left for Paris, performed his military service in 1968/69 in Toulon, then in Fréjus and finally in Djibouti in the naval infantry. He joined the editorial staff of Pif Gadget. In 1972, he became a literary critic for Les Nouvelles littéraires, a journal of which he became editor-in-chief and literary director, and then entered in 1984 at the Nouvel Observateur where he is still working. He also collaborated with the weekly L'Express.
From 8 January 1990, Jean-Louis Ezine held a daily three-minute column on France Culture, taking the form of a humorous and often caustic humor note, in the successive morning programs of the station: Culture matin, Tout arrive !, Pas la peine de crier [fr], then La Matinale. On July 19, 2013, he delivered his 5651st and latest chronicle after the decision taken by the radio station to put a halt to the program. Ezine was also a member of the literary program Le Masque et la Plume [fr] on France Inter - of which he was a true pillar, and one of the speakers with the most singular tone since the beginning of the 1990s.
In 2011, Ezine was a juror of the prix Françoise Sagan.
Work
- Novels
- 1983: La Chantepleure, éditions du Seuil, ISBN 2-02-006601-7
- 2003: Un ténébreux, éditions du Seuil, ISBN 978-2-02-019342-9
- 2009: Les Taiseux [fr], éditions Gallimard, ISBN 9782070126521 — prix Maurice Genevoix and prix Octave-Mirbeau
- Collections of texts and interviews
- 1981: Les Écrivains sur la sellette (collection of interviews with thirty eight writers), éditions du Seuil ISBN 9782020056366 — prix Broquette-Gonin of the Académie française
- 1994: Du train où vont les jours. (collection of columns broadcast in 1994 on France Culture), éditions du Seuil, ISBN 9782020183543
- 1994: Propos d'un emmerdeur (conversations with Étiemble), Arléa, ISBN 9782869592148
- 1995: Ailleurs (conversations with Jean-Marie Le Clézio), Arléa, ISBN 9782869592445
- 1995: Entre nous soit dit (conversations with Philippe Djian), Plon, ISBN 9782259181051
References
- ^ Jean-Louis Ezine, dans la douleur du silence by Jean-Claude Raspiengeas in La Croix 23 December 2009.
- This is the subject of his autobiographical narrative Les Taiseux ("collection Folio [fr]", #5176 ISBN 978-2-07-044024-5 p.29) published in 2009,
- Nicolas Mouchel, Jean-Louis Ezine de retour sur ses terres, Le Pays d'Auge, 29 October 2010.
- ^ Judgement of Jérôme Garcin in Portrait de Jean-Louis Ezine during the TV program La Grande Librairie [fr] 26 November 2009 on France 5.
- La chronique de Jean-Louis Ezine 18 July 2013 on France Culture,
- ^ Jean-Louis Ezine, le réveil mutin by Angelo Rinaldi in L'Express du 30 juin 1994.
- La chronique de Jean-Louis Ezine 19 July 2013 on France Culture.
- dossier de presse du prix Françoise Sagan (2011). "Prix Françoise Sagan" (pdf)., p. 2
External links
- Jean-Louis Ezine on Babelio
- Le blog de Jean-Louis Ezine on Philosophie magazine
- Jean-Louis Ezine Les Taiseux on YouTube
- La Chronique de Jean-Louis Ezine sur le site de France Culture
