Franz-Olivier Giesbert

Franz-Olivier Giesbert
Franz-Olivier Giesbert
	Giesbert in 2012
Born	January 18, 1949; Wilmington, Delaware, United States
Nationality	French; American
Education	Centre de formation des journalistes
Occupation	Journalist; Columnist

Franz-Olivier Giesbert (born January 18, 1949 in Wilmington, Delaware) is an American-born French journalist, author, and television presenter.[1]

Giesbert worked for Le Figaro from 1988 to 2000 and for Le Point starting in 2000.[1]

In 2013, he wrote the scenario of a documentary about his relationship with the former president, Nicolas Sarkozy, secrets d’une présidence. ("Nicholas Sarkozy, secrets of a presidency").[2]

Giesbert hosts the cable television, weekly, literary show Le Gai Savoir on Paris Première. In 1999, the show won the Richelieu price of the Association for the Defense of French Language. Since October 2011, he hosts Les Grandes Questions on France 5. And starting in 2012, he also hosts on France 3 the monthly show Le Monde d'après ("The world after").[3]

Selected novels

L'Affreux ("The ugly") , Grasset, 1992 (Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française, 1992)
La Souille ("The soil"), Grasset, 1995 (Prix Interallié, 1995)
Un très grand amour ("A great love"), Gallimard, 2010 (Prix Alain Duménil, 2010)
La cuisinière d'Himmler (Himmler's cook"), Gallimard, 2013 (Globe de Cristal Awards winner, 2014)

References

"Franz-Olivier Giesbert L'enfant devenu roi". Le Nouvel Économiste. Retrieved December 18, 2016.
Galiero, Emmanuel (11 April 2013). "Giesbert décrypte Sarkozy pour France 3" [Giesbert decodes Sarkozy for France 3]. Le Figaro (in French). Retrieved 7 September 2019.
Helfer, Benjamin (30 August 2019). "Franz-Olivier Giesbert, appelé au dernier moment dans ONPC : Je vais essayer de lire vaguement les bouquins" [Franz-Olivier Giesbert, called on ONPC for at the last minute: I will try to vaguely read the books]. Télé Loisirs (in French). Retrieved 7 September 2019.

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[nou-1] "Franz-Olivier Giesbert L'enfant devenu roi". Le Nouvel Économiste. Retrieved December 18, 2016.

[2] Galiero, Emmanuel (11 April 2013). "Giesbert décrypte Sarkozy pour France 3" [Giesbert decodes Sarkozy for France 3]. Le Figaro (in French). Retrieved 7 September 2019.

[3] Helfer, Benjamin (30 August 2019). "Franz-Olivier Giesbert, appelé au dernier moment dans ONPC : Je vais essayer de lire vaguement les bouquins" [Franz-Olivier Giesbert, called on ONPC for at the last minute: I will try to vaguely read the books]. Télé Loisirs (in French). Retrieved 7 September 2019.