Jonathan Littell

Jonathan Littell is a French-American writer and journalist who worked for many years for Action Against Hunger, mainly in Bosnia, Chechnya, Afghanistan and the Democratic Republic of Congo. His novel The Kindly Ones (Prix Goncourt 2006) explored in depth the question of institutional violence and mass murder through the Nazi experience. He has since extended this questioning with essays such as Le sec et l'humide (2008) and numerous reports for Le Monde and XXI, a French journal of narrative journalism. A precise and rigorous investigator, Littell published two long journalistic reports on the LRA (Lord's Resistance Army) in 2010 and 2011. In early 2012, he spent three weeks in the besieged city of Homs, in Syria, and produced a series of five reports for Le Monde, before publishing his notes under the title Carnets de Homs (2012). Jonathan Littell has also long been fascinated by images. He published Triptych (2011), three studies on Francis Bacon, where he studies the work of the English painter. In 2016, he directed the feature documentary Wrong Elements, dedicated to child soldiers in Uganda. More recently, in 2022, he published De l'agression russe : écrits polémiques in which he denounces the invasion of Ukraine by Russia.