Jean-Luc Coatalem

Returning to Paris, he worked in publishing and then was a reporter in the footsteps of Francisco Coloane, Nicolas Bouvier or Ella Maillart for Grands Reportages [fr],[2] le Figaro Magazine and Géo, which opened him a position of deputy editor-in-chief.

In 2001, Je suis dans les mers du Sud, a very personal essay that he drew from an investigation on Paul Gauguin, was distinguished by numerous awards, including the Prix Breizh 2002[6] and was translated into English and Chinese.

Il faut se quitter déjà published in 2008, is a melancholic account of a non-passionate love wandering between Buenos Aires and Montevideo.

Le Dernier roi d'Angkor, inspired by the difficult adoption of a Cambodian orphan, evokes the indescribable tear of a past abolished.

Services de documentation, Notice biographique Jean-Luc Coatalem - 54 ans - Romancier, nouvelliste, reporter., Radio France, Paris, 5 April 2013.