Michel Crépu

Michel Crépu (born 24 August 1954[1] in Étampes) is a French writer and literary critic as well as the editor-in-chief of Nouvelle Revue française since 2015.

He was responsible for the literary pages of the Catholic newspaper La Croix before becoming editor in 2002 and then in 2010 the director of the Revue des deux Mondes.

He is also a literary critic at Le Masque et la Plume [fr] on France Inter, Tout arrive [fr] on France Culture and collaborates on a variety of newspapers including the Romanian Observator Cultural.

He has published Le Tombeau de Bossuet which received the "Prix Femina Vacaresco" now replaced by the prix Femina essai and the Grand prix de la Critique littéraire of the Académie française as well as Le Souvenir du monde [fr], rewarded by the prix des Deux Magots.

In January 2015, he was appointed chief editor of Nouvelle Revue française by Antoine Gallimard and to the reading committee of the éditions Gallimard.