Hervé Edwy Plenel (; born 31 August 1952) is a French
political journalist
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.
Biography
Early life
Plenel spent his childhood in
Martinique
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and his youth in
Algiers, Algeria
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. He studied at the
Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris
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.
Career
His career began in 1976 as a journalist for ''Rouge'', the official newspaper of the Trotskyist
Revolutionary Communist League (LCR – ''Ligue communiste révolutionnaire''). He briefly worked for ''
Le Matin de Paris
''Le Matin de Paris'' was a French daily newspaper, founded on 1 March 1977 by Claude Perdriel, and disappearing in 1987 ("dépôt de bilan" on 6 May). Its foundation is the subject of the documentary ''Numéros zéro'' by Raymond Depardon.
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'' in 1980, before moving to the French newspaper ''
Le Monde
''Le Monde'' (; ) is a French daily afternoon newspaper. It is the main publication of Le Monde Group and reported an average circulation of 323,039 copies per issue in 2009, about 40,000 of which were sold abroad. It has had its own website si ...
'', where he worked as the paper's education editor (1980–82), legal columnist (1982–90), a reporter (1991), head of the legal department (1992–94), chief editor (1994–95), assistant editorial director (1995–96), editor (1996–2000), and editor-in-chief (2000–04).
From 1985 to 1986, while working for ''Le Monde'', he was one of the targets of a wiretapping scandal perpetrated by a secret presidential anti-terrorism cell, which he had implicated in the "
Irish of Vincennes
The "Irish of Vincennes" affair (french: Affaire des Irlandais de Vincennes; also known as the Vincennes Three, or Irishmen of Vincennes, although one of the arrestees was not a man) was a major political scandal which occurred in France during the ...
" affair for framing three Irish nationals on terrorism charges.
In 2001, he was awarded the
Prix Médicis essai
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for his essay ''Secrets de jeunesse'' (Secrets of Youth).
''Secrets de jeunesse'' de Edwy Plenel
''Evene''.
He resigned from the editorial staff of ''Le Monde'' in November 2004, and left the newspaper on 31 October 2005. He is currently the publisher
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of ''Mediapart
''Mediapart'' is an independent French investigative online newspaper created in 2008 by Edwy Plenel, former editor-in-chief of ''Le Monde''. ''Mediapart'' is published in French, English and Spanish.
''Mediapart's'' income is solely derived ...
'', an Internet-based subscription journal which he founded in 2008.
Bibliography
* ''L'Effet Le Pen'' (with Alain Rollat), Paris, La Découverte-Le Monde, 1984.
* ''La République inachevée. L'État et l'école en France'', Paris, Payot, 1985 ; Stock, 1997 ; Biblio « Essais », 1999.
* ''Mourir à Ouvéa. Le tournant calédonien'' (with Alain Rollat), Paris, La Découverte-Le Monde, 1988.
* ''Voyage avec Colomb'', Paris, Le Monde-Éditions, 1991 (in Japanese : Shobun-sha, 1992).
* ''La Part d'ombre'', Paris, Stock, 1992 ; Gallimard, « Folio Actuel », 1994.
* ''Un temps de chien'', Paris, Stock, 1994 ; Gallimard, « Folio Actuel », 1996.
* ''Les Mots volés'', Paris, Stock, 1997 ; Gallimard, « Folio Actuel », 1999.
* ''L'Épreuve'', Paris, Stock, 1999.
* ''Secrets de jeunesse'', Paris, Stock, 2001 (prix Médicis essai
Prix was an American power pop band formed in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1975 by Tommy Hoehn and Jon Tiven. The group ended up primarily as a studio project. Its recordings were produced by Tiven along with former Big Star member Chris Bell, who als ...
) ; Gallimard, « Folio », 2003.
* ''La Découverte du monde'', Paris, Stock, 2002 ; Gallimard, « Folio Actuel », 2004 (in Korean : Maumsan, 2005).
* ''Procès'', Paris, Stock, 2006 (prix du ''Journal du Centre'') ; Gallimard, « Folio », 2007.
* ''Le Journaliste et le Président'', Paris, Stock, 2006.
* ''Chroniques marranes'', Paris, Stock, 2007.
* ''Combat pour une presse libre. Le manifeste de Mediapart'', Paris, Galaade, 2009 (in Spanish : Edhasa, 2012 ; in Arabic : Sefsafa, 2015).
* ''Le Président de trop. Vertus de l'antisarkozysme, vices du présidentialisme'', Paris, Don Quichotte, 2011.
* ''Le 89 arabe'' (with Benjamin Stora
Benjamin Stora (born 2 December 1950) is a French historian, expert on North Africa, who is widely considered one of the world's leading authorities on Algerian history. He was born in a Jewish family that left the country following its War of ...
), Paris, Stock, 2011.
* ''Notre France'' (with Farouk Mardam Bey and Elias Sanbar
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La, LA, or L.A. may also refer to:
Arts and entertainment Music
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* "L.A.", a song by Elliott Smith on ''Figure ...
, 2014 ; La Découverte/Poche, 2016 (prix Fetkann de la mémoire), (in Arabic : Al Doha Magazine, 2015 ; in English : Verso, 2016).
* ''La Troisième Equipe. Souvenirs de l'affaire Greenpeace'', Paris, Don Quichotte, 2015; Seuil, « Points », 2016.
* ''Dire nous. Contre les peurs et les haines, nos causes communes'', Paris, Don Quichotte, 2016.
* ''Voyage en terres d'espoir'', Paris, Editions de l'Atelier, 2016.
* ''Le devoir d'hospitalité'', Paris, Bayard, 2017.
* ''La valeur de l'information'', Paris, Don Quichotte, 2018.
References
External links
Le blog de Edwy Plenel
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Writers from Nantes
1952 births
Living people
20th-century French journalists
21st-century French journalists
20th-century French essayists
21st-century French essayists
Revolutionary Communist League (France) politicians
French newspaper editors
Sciences Po alumni
French people of Breton descent
French male writers
Prix Médicis essai winners