Philippe Lançon

Philippe Lançon
Born	1963 (age 60–61) Vanves, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Occupation	Journalist
Language	French
Alma mater	Centre de Formation des Journalistes de Paris
Notable works	Disturbance: Surviving Charlie Hebdo
Notable awards	Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (2015) Jean-Luc Lagardère award for Journalist of the Year (2013)

Philippe Lançon (French: [filip lɑ̃sɔ̃]) is a journalist working for the French satirical weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo, who was wounded in the terrorist attack perpetrated against that publication on 7 January 2015.

Work

Lançon works primarily for other French publications, specializing in literature. He is a weekly contributor to Charlie Hebdo.

Lançon also wrote for Libération, a newspaper in France, and is a critic of Latin American writings. He is also an educator on culture and Latin American literature, having been a guest speaker at Princeton University on occasion. In the Fall of 2015, he was expected to teach a course at Princeton titled "Writers and Dictators in Latin America."

Publications

• 1998: Monography on the artist Jean Daviot, Victoire éditions, Paris
• 2004: Philippe Lançon (under the pseudonym Gabriel Lindero) (2004). Je ne sais pas écrire et je suis un innocent [I do not know how to write and I am an innocent]. Paris: Calmann-Lévy. p. 350. ISBN 978-2-7021-3428-3. Archived from the original on 22 October 2007. Retrieved 22 November 2016.
• 2011: Philippe Lançon (2011). Les îles. Paris: Jean-Claude Lattès. ISBN 978-2-7096-3513-4.
• 2016: Preface to La Légèreté, by Catherine Meurisse, Dargaud, April 2016
• 2013: L'Élan, Paris, éditions Gallimard, series "Blanche", ISBN 978-2-07-014088-6
• 2018: Le Lambeau, Paris, éditions Gallimard, series "Blanche", 2018, 512 pages. ISBN 978-2-07268-907-9

Terrorist attack

Lançon was attending a weekly meeting of Charlie Hebdo at the time of the attack on 7 January 2015. He was wounded in the face by rifle fire and was left in critical condition, but ultimately survived his injuries. Once assured of his survival after long medical treatment and therapy, he wrote his story in the book Disturbance: Surviving Charlie Hebdo (French: Le Lambeau), for which he received two literary prizes in France.

Decorations

• Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (2015)

Honours

In 2012, he was awarded the Prix Henri de Régnier of the Académie française for his work Les Îles.

In 2013, he received the Jean-Luc Lagardère Award for Journalist of the Year.

In 2018, he was awarded the Prix Femina and the Prix Renaudot Jury's Special Prize for his autobiographical book Le Lambeau.