Denis Tillinac

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Denis Tillinac
File:Denis Tillinac-FIG 2009.jpg
Denis Tillinac in 2009
Born (1947-05-26)26 May 1947
Paris, France
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Vosne-Romanée, Côte-d'Or, France
Nationality French
Education Institut d'études politiques de Bordeaux
Occupation Journalist
Writer

Denis Tillinac (26 May 1947 – 26 September 2020) was a French writer and journalist.[1]

Biography

As a writer, he received the following literary prizes: Prix de la Table ronde française (1982), Prix Roger Nimier (1983), Prix Kléber-Haedens (1987), Prix Jacques-Chardonne (1990), Prix du roman populiste (1993), Grand prix de littérature sportive (1993), Prix Paul-Léautaud (1999).

He wrote a weekly column in Valeurs actuelles.

He was close to Jacques Chirac.[1] In 2012, he wrote an open letter to Marine Le Pen to ask her to support Nicolas Sarkozy in the second round of the presidential election.[2]

He was a Catholic and wrote books about the Catholic origins of France.[3]

Tillinac died on 26 September 2020 at the age of 73.[4]

List of publications

  • Les Corréziens, (with Pierre Dauzier, Robert Laffont, 1991)
  • En désespoir de causes
  • Le mystère Simenon
  • L'Ange du désordre
  • Elvis : Balade sudiste
  • Je nous revois...
  • Le Bonheur à Souillac
  • Le rêveur d'Amériques
  • Sur les pas de Chateaubriand
  • Boulevard des Maréchaux
  • L'Irlandaise du Dakar
  • Chirac le Gaulois
  • Le Jeu et la Chandelle (1994)
  • Dernier verre au Danton (1996)
  • Don Juan (1998)
  • Ou va le monde? (co-author with Alain Finkielkraut and Jean-Claude Guillebaud, 2000)
  • Le Dieu de nos pères, défense du catholicisme (Bayard Presse, 2004)
  • Dictionnaire amoureux de la France (with Alain Bouldouyre, Plon, 2008)
  • Rue Corneille (Editions de La Table Ronde, 2009)
  • Femmes de guerre, texte in Inconnues corréziennes, résonances d'écrivains. (co-author, Editions Libel, 2009)
  • Dictionnaire amoureux du catholicisme (Plon, 2011)
  • Considérations inactuelles (Plon, 2012)

References