Jean Bertolino

Jean Bertolino (born 31 March 1936 in Marseille) is a French journalist and writer.

Biography A former student at the École supérieure de journalisme de Paris (class 1959–1961), a senior reporter and war correspondent, Bertolino worked for La Croix, Le Monde, Le Figaro and several provincial dailies. He was awarded the Albert Londres Prize in 1967 for his coverage of Vietnam and Cambodia at war and the revolt of the Kurds in Iraq, published in the newspaper La Croix and reprinted by numerous foreign newspapers.

In 1987, he became responsible for the reporting department at TF1, a public channel with which he had been collaborating since 1983. From 1988, he was the producer of 52 sur la Une, a magazine whose last issue was presented in June 2001.

He is also the author of novels.

Works 1968: Vietnam sanglant, Stock 1969: Les Trublions, Stock 1974: Les Orangers de Jaffa, Éditions France-Empire 1979: Albanie, la sentinelle de Staline, Éditions du Seuil 1993: Histoires vécues, L'Archipel 1997: Madame l'Etoile, Flammarion 1998: La Frontière des fous, Flammarion 2000: Le Chant du Farou, Alzieu 2002: Chaman, Presses de la Cité 2004: Fura-Tena, Presses de la Cité 2010: Pour qu'il ne meure jamais, Calmann-Lévy 2014: Et je te donnerai les trésors des ténèbres, Calmann-Lévy

Prizes Prix Albert Londres 1967. Grand Prix de Poésie 2011 of the (SPAF) for all his writings in prose - articles, novels, great reports - and lyrics.