Jean-Jacques Brochier

JeanJacques Brochier 28 December 1937 29 October 2004 from cancer the son of a physician was a French journalist and chief editor of Le Magazine Littéraire from 1968 to 2004 As a student he was actively engaged with the NLF and became a member of the Réseau Jeanson On 24 November 1960 while he was vicepresident of the General Assembly of the students of Lyon he was arrested along with his wife in support of the struggle for the independence of Algeria On 14 April 1961 they were both sentenced to ten years imprisonment and jailed in prisons Saint Paul then Montluc He was struck with indignité nationale He will finally be sentenced to three years in prison before receiving a presidential pardon Close to Gilles Deleuze and Dominique de Roux who guides him to le Magazine littéraire in 1967 an admirer of Martin Heidegger and JeanPaul Sartre he had in his possession a desk of Émile Zola and became a television columnist in Italiques a program proposed by Marc Gilbert in French He published several novels including Un jeune homme bien élevé 1978 Prix des Sept 1979 Un cauchemar 1984 Prix du Livre Inter 1985 and LHallali 1987 He is also the author of essays notably on Camus Sade Vailland RobbeGrillet Maupassant and Sartre and the pamphlet entitled Camus philosophe pour classes terminales From 1995 he was a member of the jury of the prix de lécrit intime He was an honorary member of the Maison internationale des poètes et des écrivains of SaintMalo In 1997 JeanJacques Brochier established with Danièle Brison and Chantal Robillard the prize Printemps du Roman awarded each year at SaintLouis HautRhin at the book fair of which he was president until his death in 2004 The presidency has since been awarded to a different jury member each year Passionate about hunting a painter he published a collection of anthologies on woodcock wild boar deer rabbit wild ducks and snipe He married Nicole Brochier born April 8 1937 Source Article JeanJacques Brochier from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30