Jean-Luc Bitton
Jean-Luc Bitton (born in 1959 in Lyon, France) is a writer and journalist. Together with Raymond Cousse, he wrote Emmanuel Bove : La Vie Comme une Ombre, a biography of the writer Emmanuel Bove. He also participated in the creation of the Bove segment of the television series A Century of Writers (1997) and has created a website devoted entirely to Bove. Bitton's 2019 biography of French poet Jacques Rigaut won Le Point magazine's biography prize in 2020.[1]
He has published articles in the journals Jungle, Perpendicular, The Series, the Nouvelle Revue Française and Rue Saint Ambrose.
Selected works
- Emmanuel Bove : La Vie Comme une Ombre, with Raymond Cousse. Preface by Peter Handke. Castor Astral (1994) ISBN 2-8592-0226-9
- Nos Amours. Un Siècle de Lettres d'Amour, Flammarion (2001) ISBN 2-08-067871-X
- La Mer de la Tranquillité: Images, with Dolorès Marat, Les Petits Matins (2005) ISBN 2-9158791-1-7
- Jacques Rigaut, le suicidé magnifique, Preface by Annie Le Brun, Gallimard (2019) ISBN 9782072713224[2]
References
- ^ Guchereau, Alexiane (22 January 2020). "Le prix Biographie 2020 du Point pour Jean-Luc Bitton" [The 2020 Biography Prize from Le Point for Jean-Luc Bitton]. Livres Hebdo (in French). Archived from the original on 29 January 2020. Retrieved 6 October 2025.
- ^ Moulin, Joanny (2020). ""The Absolute Genre": The Year in France". Biography. 43 (1): 70. ISSN 0162-4962. JSTOR 27169323.
External links
- Bitton's site about Emmanuel Bove