Denis Tillinac
Denis Tillinac | |
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.jpg) Denis Tillinac in 2009 | |
| Born | 26 May 1947 Paris, France |
| Died | 26 September 2020 (aged 73) Vosne-Romanée, Côte-d'Or, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Education | Institut d'études politiques de Bordeaux |
| Occupation(s) | Journalist Writer |
Denis Tillinac (26 May 1947 – 26 September 2020) was a French writer and journalist.[1]
Biography
[edit]As a writer, he received the following literary prizes: Prix de la Table ronde française (1982), Prix Roger Nimier (1983), Prix Kléber-Haedens (1987), Prix Jacques-Chardonne (1990), Prix du roman populiste (1993), Grand prix de littérature sportive (1993), Prix Paul-Léautaud (1999).
He wrote a weekly column in Valeurs actuelles.
He was close to Jacques Chirac.[1] In 2012, he wrote an open letter to Marine Le Pen to ask her to support Nicolas Sarkozy in the second round of the presidential election.[2]
He was a Catholic and wrote books about the Catholic origins of France.[3]
Tillinac died on 26 September 2020 at the age of 73.[4]
List of publications
[edit]- Les Corréziens, (with Pierre Dauzier, Robert Laffont, 1991)
- En désespoir de causes
- Le mystère Simenon
- L'Ange du désordre
- Elvis : Balade sudiste
- Je nous revois...
- Le Bonheur à Souillac
- Le rêveur d'Amériques
- Sur les pas de Chateaubriand
- Boulevard des Maréchaux
- L'Irlandaise du Dakar
- Chirac le Gaulois
- Le Jeu et la Chandelle (1994)
- Dernier verre au Danton (1996)
- Don Juan (1998)
- Ou va le monde? (co-author with Alain Finkielkraut and Jean-Claude Guillebaud, 2000)
- Le Dieu de nos pères, défense du catholicisme (Bayard Presse, 2004)
- Dictionnaire amoureux de la France (with Alain Bouldouyre, Plon, 2008)
- Rue Corneille (Editions de La Table Ronde, 2009)
- Femmes de guerre, texte in Inconnues corréziennes, résonances d'écrivains. (co-author, Editions Libel, 2009)
- Dictionnaire amoureux du catholicisme (Plon, 2011)
- Considérations inactuelles (Plon, 2012)
References
[edit]- ^ a b Denis Tillinac n'aurait pas pu être de gauche : « Chez eux, tout se vaut », Le Parisien, 5 May 2012
- ^ Tillinac invite Le Pen à soutenir Sarkozy, Le Figaro, 25 April 2012
- ^ Matthieu Mégevand, Denis Tillinac : "Hors de l'amour de Dieu, je me fous de tout" Archived 28 January 2020 at the Wayback Machine, Le Monde des Religions, 27 January 2011
- ^ Mort de Denis Tillinac, écrivain, éditeur et polémiste qui animait la vie de la droite
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- 1947 births
- 2020 deaths
- 20th-century French journalists
- 21st-century French journalists
- 20th-century Roman Catholics
- 21st-century Roman Catholics
- French publishers (people)
- 20th-century French essayists
- French political writers
- French Roman Catholic writers
- French political commentators
- Roger Nimier Prize winners
- Writers from Paris
- 20th-century French male writers
- French male non-fiction writers