INTERVIEW
Bernard Pivot takes a well-deserved retirement. The famous journalist left Tuesday the prestigious Académie Goncourt, which he had been president for five years. "I leave room for someone much younger than me, I hope (he is 84 years old, ed .) By a kind of egoism natural when you get older, I want to find the full use of my time, especially the summer when it is necessary to read and read again, instead of enjoying his family, holidays and the sea ", he explained on Europe 1.
Bernard Pivot, who gained notoriety thanks to the literary program "Apostrophes", joined the Académie Goncourt in 2004. He was the first non-writer to join the prestigious institution. "The greatest moment for me was my election, it was unexpected, since only writers enter the Académie Goncourt, I was a journalist," he recalls. On Twitter, the Académie Goncourt posted a photo of the academicians celebrating the departure of their president, who had told them this summer of his wish to withdraw. The festivities took place at Drouant, the restaurant in the center of Paris, where the winner of the most prestigious literary prize in the French-speaking world is announced each year.