Paris (AFP)
The American whistleblower Edward Snowden worked "for many months" with the novelist Joshua Cohen to write his book "Mémoires vives" which has just appeared in twenty countries, we learned Thursday from the French publisher of the novelist.
"Joshua Cohen, the author of + David King takes care of everything + worked for long months in absolute secrecy with Edward Snowden to write his book + Mémoires vives +", Grasset editions told AFP confirming a information published by The New Republic.
In his latest issue, the US bi-monthly revealed that the former employee of the US intelligence agency NSA wrote his memoirs "with the help of a novelist." According to the magazine, the author of "David King takes care of everything" has traveled to Russia "over the last eight months to help Snowden organize and improve his story".
At the beginning of his book, Edward Snowden thanks Joshua Cohen.
It is not uncommon for celebrities to use recognized writers to help them hold their pen. "Snowden and Cohen are both obsessed with how technology has changed and transformed society," says The New Republic.
Joshua Cohen, 39, has published eleven books since 2005 (three translated into French). Of Ukrainian and Hungarian origin, kneaded with European influences (Joyce, Beckett, Kafka) and Jewish literature (Bellow, Agnon, Celan, Yoel Hoffmann), Joshua Cohen is one of the best American authors of the decade according to the American literary magazine Granta.
In one of his books, "Book of Numbers," Joshua Cohen told the story of a writer named Joshua Cohen who wrote the autobiography of a billionaire of new technologies named ... Joshua Cohen.
His latest novel published in French, on the occasion of the return to literature, "David King takes care of everything" is interested in the subprime crisis, the housing crisis, the recovery of debts ...
Published in French at the Threshold "Mémoires vives" tells the story of Edward Snowden and the reasons that pushed him in 2013 to transmit tens of thousands of secret documents to several media, revealing in passing the existence of a system global monitoring of communications and the internet operated by the NSA.
Indicted in the United States for espionage and theft of state secrets, deprived of a passport, Edward Snowden resides in Russia where his residence permit was renewed until 2020.
He asked for the protection of more than twenty countries, including France and Germany, refused for one reason or another.
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