René Mauriès (16 February 1921 – 23 May 1999Notice
on the catalog of the BnF) was a 20th-century French journalist, reporter and writer.

Biography

After a bachelor's degree in letters, he began in 1945 with ''La République du Sud-Ouest'' as a war correspondent in Germany, then entered in 1949 in the daily newspaper ''

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'' where he accomplished his entire journalistic career. He carried out all activities, from reporter to sports columnist, notably on the

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(thirty-seven tours covered), judicial columnist (from the

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to the

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trial), and finally editor-in-chief. It covered presidential trips. He was sent to all hot spots, Indochina, Algeria, Kurdistan, Iran, China ... He was friend with

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. His stories were rewarded with the prizes in 1954 (for his articles about ''l'Indochine disponible''), the

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in 1956 for his reports on the

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, where he was wounded). At thirty-five, he was the only journalist to have received these two major awards for reporting. In 1967, he published in ''La Dépêche du Midi'' a series of reports on the genocide of the Kurdish peshmergas, ''Kurdistan ou la mort'', later published in book. After the

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of 1972, which he saw closely, he recounted his romanticized experience in ''Le Cap de la Gitane'' which was awarded the

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in 1974. In addition to his professional activities, René Mauriès carried out numerous social actions, particularly in the treatment of heart disease, including that of the "blue child" and

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. He was vice-president of the . A prize bearing his name was established in 2006 to perpetuate his memory and to reward young journalists.

Works

*1967: ''Le Kurdistan ou la mort'', *1974: ''Le Cap de la Gitane'',

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*1974: ''Toulouse, cité du destin'', photographs by

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, Havas *1978: ''La Moreneta'',

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*1992: ''Jean-Baptiste Doumeng, le grand absent'', *2001: ''Le Maître de mes secrets'', Loubatières

Prizes

*1956:

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*1974:

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*1974: Prix

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of the

References

External links

''Journalisme. Le Prix René-Mauriès décerné à Toulouse''
on ''

'' (29 January 2008)
''Dans les pas de René Mauriès, seul témoin étranger de la bataille de Rwanduz en 1966''
on ''Le Phénix Kurde''
Journalisme : Prix René-Mauriès 2011 (Toulouse)
on YouTube {{DEFAULTSORT:Mauries, Rene 20th-century French journalists 20th-century French writers Albert Londres Prize recipients Prix Interallié winners 1921 births People from Tarn (department) 1999 deaths French expatriates in Germany