birth_date: 1948-07-22 00:00:00
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name: Gérard de Cortanze
about: Gérard de Cortanze is a French writer, essayist, translator and literary critic. He won the Prix Renaudot in 2002 for his historical novel Assam. He was awarded chevalier of the Legion of Honor in 2009.He is President of the Jury Prize for the Jean Monnet prize, European department of Charente, awarded annually since 1995, to reward a European writer for a book written or translated into French.