Paris (AFP)
The writer Denis Tillinac died at 73 on the night from Friday to Saturday following a heart attack, we learned from Plon editions.
He who was also a journalist and head of a publishing house has signed more than sixty books (novels, stories, essays, short stories, poems, etc.), including his latest "Dictionary of the General's Love (De Gaulle)" published by Editions Plon (2020).
Many prizes have marked the career of one who was a friend of Jacques Chirac, who died a year ago to the day: the Roger Nimier Prize for "The English Summer" (Robert Laffont) or the Henri Grand Prize for Literature -Gal, award from the Institut de France on a proposal from the Académie française, for all of his work.
Known for his commitments to the right, Denis Tillinac was first Chiraquian before becoming a Sarkozyst.
In 2016, the writer participated in a gathering of intellectuals and politicians in Béziers at the initiative of the mayor Robert Ménard, in charge of a round table entitled "Defining what it is to be on the right".
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