Olivier Todd, journalist, essayist and novelist, died on the night of Friday December 27 to Saturday December 28, at the age of 95, we learned The World.
Born in 1929 in Neuilly-sur-Seine (Île-de-France), Olivier Todd collaborated in the 1960s and 1970s with the BBC and The New Observer, for which he covered the war in Vietnam, before joining the newspaper l’Express in 1977 of which he became deputy editor-in-chief.
He is also the author of several biographies, notably of the singer Jacques Brel (1984), of Albert Camus, a work which won the France Télévision literary prize in 1996 and the Mémorial Prize, Ajaccio literary grand prize, but also of André Malraux (2001).
“Olivier Todd is dead. He was a model for me and like an uncle, but it is journalism that is in mourning”reacted journalist Bernard Guetta, who was close to the family, on X Saturday. “Committed, subjective, he never claimed objectivity but he embodied like no other intellectual honesty, courage and talent, all three at once”continued the winner of the Albert Londres prize.
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