NBorn in 1929 in Neuilly-sur-Seine (Île-de-France), Olivier Todd died at the age of 95 on the night of Friday to Saturday, said his son, the historian and demographer Emmanuel Todd.
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The journalist collaborated in the 60s and 70s with the BBC and The New Observerfor which he covered the war in Vietnam, before joining the newspaper l’Express in 1977 of which he became deputy editor-in-chief.
“Intellectual honesty, courage and talent”
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 for me and like an uncle but it is journalism that is in mourning,” journalist Bernard Guetta, who is close to the family, reacted on Saturday on X.
“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.
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