Serge Lentz (16 January 1934 – 22 December 2021) was a French journalist and writer.
[1] Lentz was awarded the Prix des libraires in 1982 for the novel Les Années-sandwiches [fr].
His final novel, La Stratégie du Bouffon, was described as the "best novel of the year" by the magazine Lire.
In addition to his career as a writer, Lentz covered wars in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Algeria, Vietnam, Israel, Biafra, Iraq, and others.
In 1963, he was the first journalist from the West to travel to the People's Republic of China for the Washington Post.