2023-07-18 21:41:00
The former collaborator of the “Point” died at the age of 72 at the European Georges-Pompidou hospital in Paris. The causes of his death are not yet known.
By MP with AFP Journalist and historian Alexandre Adler has died at the age of 72. © BALTEL/SIPA / SIPA Published on 07/18/2023 at 9:41 p.m.
Journalist and historian Alexandre Adler, a specialist in international relations, the former USSR and the Middle East, died on Tuesday at the age of 72, his wife, philosopher Blandine Kriegel, told Agence France-Presse (AFP). . He died at the Georges-Pompidou European Hospital in Paris. The journalist was currently working on an “almost completed treatise on geopolitics”, according to Blandine Kriegel, joined by AFP.
Winner of the 2003 Political Book Prize for his bestseller released the year before, I saw the end of the old world, on the consequences of the September 11 attacks, Alexandre Adler also won the Mumm Foundation prize in 1999 for his Notepads in Courrier International.
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He worked for ten years at Release (1982-1992), then at Courrier international where he was editor-in-chief then editorial director (1992-2002) and also spent five years at the Monde as adviser to Jean-Marie Colombani, then director of the newspaper. This normalien, agrégation in history, known for his great erudition, also collaborated in the Figaroau PointTo France Culture… “He had announced the fall of the USSR early on,” recalled his wife in a press release sent to AFP. The causes of his death were not specified.
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