Gilles Tordjman
Gilles Tordjman (born 31 August 1962 in Paris) is a French musicologist, journalist and literary critic. Biography. After graduating with a master's degree in philosophy in 1984, he wrote for "Le Matin de Paris" and "L'Express" before joining "Les Inrockuptibles" in 1992 where he was an editorial writer for five years. In April 1997, Gilles Tordjman left "Les Inrockuptibles" following a polemic in the editorial office about Michel Bounan's book, "L'Art de Céline et son temps" which he had defended. He then joined '. Subsequently, Gilles Tordjman also wrote in ', "Jazzman", "Jazz Magazine", "Épok", "Elle" , "Playboy," "Vibrations ," "Mouvement," and on artnet.fr. Gilles Tordjman wrote books devoted to Duke Ellington and Leonard Cohen as well as numerous articles about jazz musicians, notably Django Reinhardt, Chet Baker, Eric Dolphy and Pascal Comelade. He is also a literary critic, particularly interested in Emmanuel Bove, , Marius Jacob, , Guy Debord and also Fernando Pessoa, Sun Tzu and Baltasar Gracián to whom Gilles Tordjman devoted long articles or postfaces when their works were reissued. In 2012, he published an article against Bob Dylan in the special issue of "Télérama" devoted to the American singer.