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Jean Bertolino (born 31 March 1936 in Marseille) is a French journalist and writer.

Biography

A former student at the École supérieure de journalisme de Paris (class 1959–1961), a senior reporter and war correspondent, Bertolino worked for La Croix, Le Monde, Le Figaro and several provincial dailies. He was awarded the Albert Londres Prize in 1967 for his coverage of Vietnam and Cambodia at war and the revolt of the Kurds in Iraq, published in the newspaper La Croix and reprinted by numerous foreign newspapers.

In 1987, he became responsible for the reporting department at TF1, a public channel with which he had been collaborating since 1983. From 1988 he was the producer of 52 sur la Une, a magazine whose last issue was presented in June 2001.^[1]

He is also the author of novels.

Works

1968: Vietnam sanglant, Stock
1969: Les Trublions, Stock
1974: Les Orangers de Jaffa, Éditions France-Empire
1979: Albanie, la sentinelle de Staline, Éditions du Seuil
1993: Histoires vécues, L'Archipel
1997: Madame l'Etoile, Flammarion
1998: La Frontière des fous, Flammarion
2000: Le Chant du Farou, Alzieu
2002: Chaman, Presses de la Cité
2004: Fura-Tena, Presses de la Cité
2010: Pour qu'il ne meure jamais, Calmann-Lévy
2014: Et je te donnerai les trésors des ténèbres, Calmann-Lévy

Prizes

Prix Albert Londres 1967.^[2]
Grand Prix de Poésie 2011 of the Société des poètes et artistes de France [fr] (SPAF) for all his writings in prose - articles, novels, great reports - and lyrics.^[3]

References

^ Les adieux de Jean Bertolino on the site LaDépêche.fr 27.06.2001
^ For all of his work on the Vietnam War, the Kurds' war in Iraq, Cambodia and China
^ Palmarès 2011 des Grands Prix Internationaux de Poésie sur le site de la SPAF [1] Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine