Jean-Jacques Brochier

Jean-Jacques Brochier

Born: December 28, 1937
Died: October 29, 2004
in Lyon, Rhône, France
Jean-Jacques Brochier (28 December 1937 – 29 October 2004 from cancer), the son of a physician, was a French journalist, and chief editor of Le Magazine Littéraire from 1968 to 2004.

As a student, he was actively engaged with the NLF and became a member of the Réseau Jeanson. On 24 November 1960, while he was vice-president of the General Assembly of the students of Lyon, he was arrested along with his wife in support of the struggle for the independence of Algeria. On 14 April 1961 they were both sentenced to ten years imprisonment and jailed in prisons Saint- Paul then Montluc. He was struck with indignité nationale. He will finally be sentenced to three years in prison before receiving a presidential pardon.

Close to Gilles Deleuze and Dominique de Roux who guides him to le Magazine littéraire, in 1967, an admirer of Martin Heidegger and Jean-Paul Sartre, he had in his possession a desk of Émile Zola and became a television columnist in Italiques, a program proposed by Marc Gilbert (in French).

He published several novels, including Un jeune homme bien élevé (1978) (Prix des Sept 1979), Un cauchemar (1984) Prix du Livre Inter (1985), and L'Hallali (1987). He is also the author of essays - notably on Camus, Sade, Vailland, Robbe-Grillet, Maupassant and Sartre - and the pamphlet entitled Camus, philosophe pour classes terminales.

From 1995, he was a member of the jury of the prix de l'écrit intime. He was an honorary member of the Maison internationale des poètes et des écrivains of Saint-Malo

In 1997, Jean-Jacques Brochier established with Danièle Brison and Chantal Robillard the prize "Printemps du Roman", awarded each year at Saint-Louis (Haut-Rhin), at the book fair of which he was president until his death in 2004. The presidency has since been awarded to a different jury member each year.

Passionate about hunting, a painter, he published a collection of anthologies on woodcock, wild boar, deer, rabbit, wild ducks and snipe. He married Nicole Brochier, born April 8, 1937.

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Title: Caché
Character: TV Guest
Released: October 5, 2005
Type: Movie
A married couple is terrorized by a series of videotapes planted on their front porch.
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Title: Apostrophes
Character: Self
Released: January 10, 1975
Type: TV
Apostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and hosted by Bernard Pivot. It ran for fifteen years (724 episodes) from January 10, 1975, to June 22, 1990, and was one of the most watched shows on French television (around 6 million regular viewers). It was broadcast on Friday nights on the channel France 2 (which was called "Antenne 2" from 1975 to 1992). The hourlong show was devoted to books, authors and literature. The format varied between one-on-one interviews with a single author and open discussions between four or five authors.