| Daniel Rondeau | |
| Birth Date: | 7 May 1948 |
| Birth Place: | Le Mesnil-sur-Oger, France |
| Nationality: | French |
| Education: | Panthéon-Assas University |
| Occupation: | Writer Journalist Diplomat |
| Known For: | Member of the Académie Française |
Daniel Rondeau (born 7 May 1948) is a French writer, editor, and diplomat.[1] [2] Born in Le Mesnil-sur-Oger, he studied law at Panthéon-Assas where the spirit of May 68 saw him embrace Maoism and join the proletariat by working from 1970 to 1974 in a factory in Nancy making insulation.[3] [4] He worked for France Inter's Nord-Est radio station from 1977,[4] before moving to Paris, where he worked for the newspapers Libération (1982–1985) Le Nouvel Observateur (1985–1998) and L'Express (1998–2007).[1] [2] [5] He was French ambassador to Malta (2008–2011) and to UNESCO (2011–2013).[1] [3] He has written fiction, reportage, literary criticism and political commentary, and for his oeuvre won the Grand prix de littérature Paul-Morand in 1998. After unsuccessfully standing for election to the Académie Française in 2011 and 2016, he was elected to seat 8 in 2019.[1] [6]
| Title | Date | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chagrin lorrain | 1979 | Account of deindustrialisation in Lorraine | |
| L'Âge-Déraison, véritable biographie imaginaire de Johnny H | 1982 | ||
| Trans-Europ-Express | 1984 | Anthology of Libération reportage | |
| Tanger | 1987 | Travelogue of Tangiers. | |
| L'enthousiasme | 1988 | Memoir of his time as a factory worker in Lorraine. Revised edition in 2006 was the second volume of his autobiography, Mémoire tu l'appelleras | |
| Pourquoi écrivez vous? | 1988 | Co-editor with Jean-François Fogel of an anthology of writers explaining their motivations. | |
| Les Tambours du Monde | 1989 | Novel | |
| Chronique du Liban rebelle 1988–1989 | 1991 | Account of his friend Michel Aoun's interim premiership at the end of the Lebanese Civil War. | |
| Portraits champenois | 1991 | Account of his home region of Champagne, with photographs by his brother Gérard Rondeau | |
| La Part du diable | 1992 | Novel | |
| Littérature notre ciel! | 1992 | Account of | |
| Les Fêtes partagées; Lectures et autres voyages | 1994 | Literary anthology | |
| Mitterrand et nous | 1994 | Account of the presidency of François Mitterrand | |
| Des hommes libres; La France libre par ceux qui l’ont faite | 1997 | Co-editor with Roger Stéphane of accounts by Free French resistance members | |
| Alexandrie | 1997 | Travelogue of Alexandria. Winner of the 1998 Prix des Deux Magots | |
| Johnny | 1999 | Anthology of journalistic interviews and portraits of Johnny Hallyday. Second edition 2009. | |
| Istanbul | 2002 | Travelogue of Istanbul. | |
| Dans la marche du temps | 2004 | Novel | |
| Camus ou les promesses de la vie | 2005 | Account of Albert Camus' life and work | |
| Les vignes de Berlin | 2006 | First volume of his autobiography, Mémoire tu l'appelleras | |
| Journal de lectures, 1999–2006 | 2007 | Anthology of literary articles from L'Express | |
| Carthage | 2008 | Travelogue and meditation on the ruins and history of Carthage | |
| Malta Hanina | 2012 | Account of Malta | |
| Vingt ans et plus | 2014 | Excerpts from his 1991–2012 diaries. Winner of the Prix Saint-Simon | |
| Boxing-Club | 2016 | Essays on boxing | |
| 2017 | Novel. Winner of the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française | ||
| La raison et le cœur | 2018 | Anthology of political and literary pieces written since 1984, some previously unpublished. | |
| Arrière-pays | 2021 | Novel |