Emmanuel Todd announced the death of his father, the journalist and writer Olivier Todd, at the age of 95. During his career, he covered the war in Vietnam, worked for the BBC and Le Nouvel Observateur, before joining L'Express in 1977. He wrote a noted biography of Albert Camus.
French journalist and writer Olivier Todd, author of a notable biography of Albert Camus, died at the age of 95, his son told AFP on Saturday, confirming information from Le Monde. He died during the night from Friday to Saturday, said his son, the historian and demographer Emmanuel Todd.
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“It’s journalism that is in mourning”
Born in 1929 in Neuilly-sur-Seine (Île-de-France), Olivier Todd collaborated in the 1960s and 1970s with the BBC and Le Nouvel Observateur, for which he covered the war in Vietnam, before joining the newspaper l'Express in 1977, where 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).
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“Olivier Todd is dead. He was a model and like an uncle for me, 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 one else intellectual honesty, courage and talent, all three at the same time,” continued the winner of the Albert Londres prize.
