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Benoît Vitkine

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Benoît Vitkine
Benoît Vitkine
Born1983
OccupationJournalist

Benoît Vitkine is a French journalist born in 1983. He is a specialist in the countries of the former USSR and Eastern Europe at the newspaper Le Monde. He won the Albert Londres Prize for written press in 2019.

As a correspondent in Moscow, he went on assignment to Ukraine and the Donbass starting in April 2014.[1] Since 2014, he has published more than a hundred reports on Ukraine. His reports in the Donbass[2][3] document the war, both from the Russian-controlled side and the Ukrainian-controlled side.[4]

Awards

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  • 2019: Albert Londres Prize for written press, for a series of six investigations primarily focused on Russian influence, including the war in Donbass.[5][6]
  • 2020: Senghor Prize for the best first novel in French for Donbass.
  • 2021: Reader’s Prize (Livre de Poche), 2021 selection for Donbass.
  • 2022: Chadourne Prize for Les Loups.

Works

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  • 2011: Les Nachi, ou la construction d'une "jeunesse du pouvoir" russe, Univ Européenne (ISBN 9786131574375)
  • 2020: Donbass, Les Arènes (ISBN 9791037500595)
  • 2022: Les Loups, Les Arènes, 318 p. (ISBN 979-10-37505804) – Selected for the 2022 Grand Prix of detective literature.
  • 2024: L'Enclave, Les Arènes, 2024.[7][8]

References

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  1. ^ "Le Donbass ignore la « désescalade » prévue par l'accord de Genève". 19 April 2014.
  2. ^ "Dans l'est du pays, les séparatistes accélèrent les préparatifs pour un référendum". 22 April 2014.
  3. ^ "Comment les séparatistes prorusses ont gagné". 12 May 2014.
  4. ^ "Terreur sur le Donbass". 11 July 2014.
  5. ^ "Benoît Vitkine, Marlène Rabaud et Feurat Alani – Prix Albert Londres".
  6. ^ "Le prix Albert-Londres décerné au journaliste du « Monde » Benoît Vitkine". 29 October 2019 – via Le Monde.
  7. ^ ""L'enclave" de Benoît Vitkine". 14 January 2024.
  8. ^ "«L'Enclave» de Benoît Vitkine, fin de peine et fin de règne".