Jean-Baptiste Harang (born 4 April 1949 in
Chaulgnes,
Nièvre) is a French writer and journalist.
Life
Jean-Baptiste Harang started working as a journalist at Libération in 1978 before he held the literary critic column from 1998 to 2007.[1] He later worked for Le Magazine Littéraire.
He published his first novel, Le Contraire du coton, in 1993 and received the
Inter Book Prize in 2007 for La Chambre de la Stella, an autobiographical novel whose plot is located at
Dun-le-Palestel (in
Creuse), the native village of his paternal family.