Update May 6, 2024 at 4:57 p.m.
Published on May 6, 2024 at 3:26 p.m. by Ikrame Daoudi
The famous presenter and writer Bernard Pivot has died at the age of 89.
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After months of battling cancer, the famous presenter and writer Bernard Pivot died at the age of 89, in Neuilly-sur-Seine. It was his daughter, Cécile Pivot, who announced the sad news to AFP this Monday, May 6, 2024.
Journalist, writer, president of the Goncourt academy…
First journalist for the regional daily Progress, he will then work at Literary Figaro, in 1958 and even became head of department. Subsequently, he joined Point And The Sunday Journal. Bernard Pivot is particularly known for having launched in 1974 “Apostrophes”broadcast on Antenne 2 on Friday evening. This literary program could attract up to 2 million, even 3 million, viewers for 15 years. She was arrested in 1990 after 724 issues. Bernard Pivot then received Sagan, Barthes, Nabokov, Bourdieu, Eco, Le Clézio, Modiano, Levi-Strauss and even President Mitterrand.
After the end of this broadcast, Bernard Pivot will then present the program “Culture broth” until June 2001. The last issue then attracted nearly 1.2 million viewers. In 2004, Bernard Pivot became the first “non-writer” to join the Goncourt academy. This man who entered the Laroussewill also become the president of the Goncourt academy in 2014 and finally retires in 2019.
Bernard Pivot creates the French Spelling Championships
Bernard Pivot also created the French Spelling Championships in 1985, Then the World Spelling Championships which will then be renamed for Golden dictionaries. This spelling championship will be a great success, even internationally. In 1992, a dictation was even given at the United Nations headquarters in New York. This championship will end on November 26, 2005.
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