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Gilles Lapouge (7 November 1923 – 31 July 2020) was a French writer and journalist with the daily ''

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''. He won the 2007

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'', the ''

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. He participated in the

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program, "Ouvrez les guillemets" ("Open the quotes") which became Apostrophes". In ''

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'', he produced the show "Agora" and then "En étrange pays" ("in foreign countries"). He served on the editorial board of ''La Quinzaine littéraire.'' He appeared at the ''Étonnants voyageurs'' festival at

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. He died at the age of 96 on 31 July 2020.

Works

*''Les Pirates'', Payot, 1987 *''Équinoxiale'', Flammarion, Paris, 1977, *''Un soldat en déroute'', Folio *''Le Singe de la montre'', 1982 *''Utopie et civilisations'', 1973 *''La Révolution sans modèle'', with

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and Olivier Revault d'Allonnes, Mouton, 1974 *''La Bataille de Wagram'', Flammarion, Prix des Deux Magots, 1987 *''La Folie Koenigsmark'', A. Michel, 1996 *''L'Incendie de Copenhague'', A. Michel, Prix Cazes, 1996 *''Le Bruit de la neige'', A. Michel *''Besoin de mirages'', Seuil, 1998 *''Au revoir l’Amazonie'', 2000 (publié sur Internet, au Brésil) *''La Mission des frontières'', A. Michel, 2002 *''Le Bois des amoureux,'' A. Michel, 2006 *''L'Encre du voyageur,'' A. Michel, 2007 *''La Légende de la géographie,'' A. Michel, 2009 *''La Maison des lettres. Conversations avec Christophe Mercier,'' Phébus, 2009 *''Dictionnaire amoureux du Brésil,'' Ed. Plon, Paris, 2011,

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lapouge, Gilles 1923 births Prix Femina essai winners Prix des Deux Magots winners Joseph Kessel Prize recipients Prix Roger Caillois recipients Prix Louis Guilloux winners 2020 deaths People from Digne-les-Bains 20th-century French non-fiction writers 21st-century French non-fiction writers French historical novelists French travel writers 20th-century French male writers French male non-fiction writers