Bruno de Cessole[n 1] (born 23 August 1950 in Nice) is a French writer and literary critic.
The son of General Raymond de Cessole and Françoise Laubiès, Bruno de Cessole is a journalist for Le Figaro, L'Express, Le Point, a literary critic at Les Nouvelles littéraires and Les Lettres Françaises, as well as director of the Revue des deux Mondes.
He was then editor-in-chief of Jours de Chasse and of the cultural department of Valeurs actuelles, and collaborated with the Service littéraire [fr].
In 2009, his novel L'Heure de la fermeture dans les jardins d'Occident won the prix des Deux Magots.
[1][2] In early 2016, after the purchase of the newspaper by Étienne Mougeotte, Charles Villeneuve and Iskandar Safa, he left Valeurs actuelles.