Awarded Grand prix de littérature de l'Académie française (2019).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement

Figure timeline
Jules Régis Debray is a French philosopher, journalist, former government official and academic. He is known for his theorization of mediology, a critical theory of the long-term transmission of cultural meaning in human society, and for associating with Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara in Bolivia in 1967 and advancing Salvador Allende's presidency in Chile in the early 1970s. He returned to Fran…
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
culture · French philosopher and journalist (born 1940) · philosopher · writer · official · journalist · teacher · novelist · also Régis Debray, Debray
Born 2 September 1940 · Q378116
24 published statements · 0 followers
See & hear
4 photos
Media from Wikimedia Commons, hotlinked at the source under its own licence — see each file for author and terms.
Live now
Pulling headlines from trusted outlets — this usually takes a few seconds
Checking the wires…
Feed scan
These are live links, not archived citations — they only join the timeline once a collect run verifies and archives them.
Live pulse
Most recent outstanding titles, awards, and quotes
Awarded Grand prix de littérature de l'Académie française (2019).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Awarded Manès-Sperber-Preis (2013).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Awarded honorary doctorate of the Bordeaux Montaigne University (2005).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
For monitoring sociological religious dynamics, and informing the public about religious issues through conferences and publications
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Awarded Prix François Mauriac (Aquitaine) (2004).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Awarded Prix Combourg-Chateaubriand (2003).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Career landmark: president (2002–2004).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Debray travelled to Haiti as the head of a commission appointed by French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Awarded Prix du livre politique (1998).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Awarded “Today” Prize (1996).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Awarded Prix Décembre (1996).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Published a memoir of his life, translated into English as Régis Debray, Praised Be Our Lords (Verso, 2007)
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Awarded Joseph-Kessel Prize (1993).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Studied at University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, doctorate in France (1993).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Career landmark: Master of Requests of the Conseil d'État (1985–1992).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Became an official adviser to the President on Foreign Affairs
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Awarded Prix Femina (1977).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
And later held various official posts in the French government
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Following the coup by Augusto Pinochet in Chile
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
After an international campaign for his release which included appeals by Jean-Paul Sartre, André Malraux, General Charles de Gaulle, and Pope Paul VI
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
By Maspero in Paris, in New York (Monthly Review Press and Grove Press), Montevideo (Sandino), Milan (Feltrinelli), and Munich (Trikont)
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
And advancing Salvador Allende's presidency in Chile in the early 1970s
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Awarded Concours général (1960).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Born 1940-09-02.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Connections