Jean-Christophe Rufin

Jean-Christophe Rufin , born with Bourges (Expensive) on June 28th, 1952 is a doctor of medicine and Universitaire French, traveller writer Essayiste and Romancier.

He was very implied in the humanitarian action and the assistance with the Third world before being about it diverted by his conclusions of geopolitical strategy.

Childhood and formation

After the departure of her father, his mother, who works with Paris, cannot only educate it; it is then raised by his grandparents. His/her grandfather, doctor and resistant, looked after the combatants of the First World War and were off-set two years with Buchenwald for facts of resistance - it had hidden the resistant ones in 1940 in its house of Bourges.

At 18 years, Jean-Christophe Rufin re-examines his father by chance. I had chosen, in Bourges, the first dispensary come to make a vaccine. An young woman who worked there asked me for my name and turned pale. It was my half-sister, it led me near our father. Our reports/ratios were never very good .

In 1975, it is received with the contest of boarding school in Paris. He works with the Hôpital Rothschild, in common room. Although having chosen neurology like speciality, he exerts in maternity.

In 1976, it leaves like co-operator in Tunisia.

Career in the humanitarian and medicine

As doctor, it is one of the pioneers of the humane movement or hommist “without borders” for which it directed many missions in East Africa and in Latin America.

Its first humane mission is carried out in 1976 in Erythrée, then devastated by the war. It penetrates there incognito with the Eritrean rebellious forces within the humane battalions. It meets there Azeb, which will become his second wife.

In 1981, he becomes senior registrar of the hospitals of Paris.

In 1985, Jean-Christophe Rufin becomes the medical director of Action against the hunger (ACF) in Ethiopia.

Graduate of the Institute of political studies of Paris in 1980, it becomes, in 1986, adviser of the Secretary of State to the Human rights, Claude Malhuret and publishes its first book, the humane Trap , a test on the policy issues of the humanitarian action and the paradoxes of the movements " without frontières" who, by helping the populations, make the play of the dictators.

In 1988, it expatriate in Brazil for two years.

Between 1991 - 1993, he is vice-president of Doctors without borders, but leaves association at the time of walk for the Kampuchea. It takes again medicine part-time and becomes administrator of the French Croix-Rouge.

In 1993, it enters to the cabinet of François Léotard, then Minister for Defense, like advising specialized in the strategic reflection on the North-South relations. Research director with the Institute of international relations and strategic, it leads the French humane mission in Bosnia-Herzégovine. He makes release eleven French hostages of association First Urgency held by the Serbes of Bosnia while sympathizing with the geôliers and while obliging to drink with them.

In 1995, after the birth of Valentine, its third newborn on February 3rd, it leaves the ministry for Defense and becomes attached cultural to the Brazilian Nordeste.

In 1997, it returns to France to direct a house of Psychiatrie to the Saint-Anthony hospital to Paris.

In 1999, it is in station Kosovo as administrator of association First Urgency, and directs to the school of war a seminar entitled “UNO and maintenance of peace”.

After the humanitarian

President of ACF (Action Against the Hunger) starting from 2003, it leaves his functions in June 2006 to devote itself more to the writing. There remains however honorary president of this Governmental organization (ONG).

In 2007, he was member of the jury of the Festival of documentary film of Monaco, and on August 3rd, 2007, he is named Ambassadeur France with the Senegal.

Literary career

Jean-Christophe Ruffin devoted more than twenty years of his life to work in of ONG to the Nicaragua, in Afghanistan, with the Filipino , the Rwanda and in the Balkans. This experiment of the ground led it to examine the role of ONG in the conflict situations, in particular in the test the humane Trap (1986), and in its third novel, the lost Causes (1999).

Its novels of adventures, histories, policies, are vein of the accounts of large the reporters novelists of formerly - Albert London, Joseph Kessel, Henry de Monfreid - and visionaries like George Orwell and Ray Bradbury.

I was deformed in the direction of the visual one. (...) As Kundera said it, there are two kinds of writers: the writer musician and the writer painter. Me I am painter. (...) When one writes, either one listens, or one sees. One cannot make both at the same time. .

Tests

the humane Trap. When the humanitarian replaces the war , ED. J. - Cl. Slats, 1986.
Empire and the new barbarians , ED. J. - Cl. Slats, 1991. New re-examined and increased edition - J. - Cl. Slats, 2001. A test of international policy which compares the Occident with the Roman Empire threatened by the barbarians. “Today, it is which requires assistances for its development. As for the South, it is armed now against North. ”
liberal Dictatorship , ED. J. - Cl. Slats, 1994
the humane Adventure , ED. Gallimard, 1994 Geopolitical
of the hunger: Hunger and responsibility , ED. P.U.F., 2004.

Novels

Abyssin , ED. Gallimard, 1997. Price Goncourt of the first novel and the Price the Mediterranean. 300.000 sold specimens and 19 translations
To save Ispahan , ED. Gallimard, 1998.
lost Causes , ED. Gallimard 1999, Interallied Price 1999. Republished with the title Asmara and the lost causes in Folio
Red Brazil , ED. Gallimard, 2001. Price Goncourt 2001
Globalia , ED. Gallimard, 2004. In Folio, ISBN 2-07-030918-5
the Salamander , ED. Gallimard, 2005. In Folio, ISBN 2-07-032876-7
the Perfume of Adam , ED. Flammarion, 2007

In collaboration

Economy of the civil wars, with François Jean, ED. Hatchet, 1996
rebellious Worlds, with Arnaud of the Barn and Jean-Marc Balancie, ED. Michalon, 1996

Rewards

Price Goncourt 1997, for its novel Abyssin .
Price the Mediterranean 1997, for its novel Abyssin .
Interallied Price 1999, for its novel lost Causes .
Price Goncourt 2001, for its novel Red Brazil .

Private life

Until its nomination, as an ambassador in Senegal, it resided most of the year at Saint-Nicolas-with-Véroce, in the solid mass of the Mont Blanc. August 25th, 2007, took place its marriage with Saint-Gervais-the-Baths. His wife is of Ethiopian origin.

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