François Sureau

François Maurice Christophe Sureau (; born 19 September 1957) is a French writer, lawyer and technocrat. In 2020, he was elected to the Académie Française.

Biography Sureau was born in the 14th arrondissement of Paris. His father was Claude Sureau (19272020), a former president of the National Academy of Medicine.

He studied at Sciences Po and the École nationale d'administration (ENA), before joining the Conseil d'État as an auditeur. He is a co-founder and co-director of the French Review of Economics (Revue française d'économie). He is also the founding president of the Association Pierre Claver which assists refugees and displaced persons who have arrived in France. He is also a member of the editorial board of the journal Commentaire.

On 15 October 2020, he was elected a member of the Académie Française (seat 24).

Awards Sureau has won a number of prizes for his literary works. These include La Corruption du siècle, winner of the Prix Colette and Prix Paul Flat in 1989; L'Infortune, winner of the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française in 1990; Le Sphinx de Darwin, winner of the Prix Goncourt de la Nouvelle in 1997; Les Alexandrins which won the Prix Méditerranée in 2003; and Je ne pense plus voyager. La mort de Charles de Foucauld, which win the Prix Combourg-Chateaubriand in 2016.

Books Terre inconnue, récit de voyage, 1983 À l'est du monde, with Gilles Étrillard, 1983 L'Indépendance à l'épreuve, 1988 La Corruption du siècle, Prix Colette and Prix Paul Flat, 1988 Garçon, de quoi écrire, with Jean d'Ormesson, 1989 L'Infortune, Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française, 1990 L'Aile de nos chimères, 1993 Les hommes n'en sauront rien, 1995 Le Sphinx de Darwin, Prix Goncourt de la Nouvelle, 1997 Lambert Pacha, 1998 Les Alexandrins, Prix Méditerranée, 2003 La Chanson de Passavant, 2005 L'Obéissance, 2006 Inigo. Portrait, 2010 Sans bruit sans trace, 2011 Le Chemin des morts, 2013 Sur les bords de tout, 2016 Je ne pense plus voyager. La mort de Charles de Foucauld, Prix Combourg-Chateaubriand, 2016 Pour la liberté. Répondre au terrorisme par la raison, 2017 L'Or du temps, 2020 Ma vie avec Apollinaire, 2021 Un an dans la forêt, 2022 S'en aller, 2024 Les enfants perdus, 2025 Loin de Salonique, 2026

Honours Commander of the Legion of Honour (2021) Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (2020) Knight of the Ordre du Mérite Maritime (2008)