Gilles Lapouge

Gilles Lapouge (7 November 1923 – 31 July 2020) was a French writer and journalist with the daily O Estado de S. Paulo. He won the 2007 Prix Femina Essai.

Life He grew up in Algeria, where his father was in the military. After studying history and geography, he became a journalist. In 1950 he moved to Brazil. For three years he worked for the Brazilian newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo, where he remained a correspondent in France for more than forty years. Back in France, he worked in Le Monde, the Figaro Littéraire and Combat. He participated in the Bernard Pivot program, "Ouvrez les guillemets" ("Open the quotes") which became Apostrophes". In France Culture, 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 Saint-Malo. 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 François Châtelet 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,