Pascal Bruckner

Pascal Bruckner (born December 15, 1948, in Paris) is a French writer, novelist, and essayist known as one of the "New Philosophers" who rose to prominence in the 1970s and 1980s with critiques of French society, Western guilt, and left-wing ideologies. His most notable works include the novels Lunes de fiel (adapted by Roman Polanski as Bitter Moon) and Les voleurs de beauté, and essays such as Le Sanglot de l'homme blanc (The Tears of the White Man) and La Tyrannie de la pénitence (The Tyranny of Guilt). He has received major literary awards including the Prix Médicis (1995) for La tentation de l'innocence, Prix Renaudot (1997) for Les voleurs de beauté, and Prix Marcel Pagnol (2014), and has been a member of the Académie Goncourt since around 2019.