Patrick Besson

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Patrick Besson (born 1 June 1956) is a French writer and journalist.

His father was Russian and his mother was Croatian. He published his first novel, Early Mornings Of Love, in 1974, aged 17. He received a Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française in 1985 for Dara and the Prix Renaudot in 1995 for Braban.

First of all a Communist sympathizer, he is a literary chronicler with the newspaper L'Humanité. He also wrote for the newspaper L'Idiot international, whose editor is Jean-Edern Hallier.

During the Yugoslav Wars, he supported Serbia by publishing the book in particular against the slanderers of Serbia, which created tension with other intellectuals like Michel Polac, Romain Goupil and Didier Daeninckx. Attacks by Daeninckx led Besson to criticize him in a novel, called Didier Denounces (editions Gerard de Villiers).

He wrote a poem, Sonnet Pour Florence Rey, in dedication to the girl who went on a killing spree in Paris in 1994.