Gilbert Grellet

Gilbert Grellet, born June 30 1946 in Bordeaux (south-west of France), is a French journalist who spent his entire career at Agence France-Presse (AFP), one of the three world-wide news agency, along with Reuters and the Associated Press. He is also a writer and has published about ten books, some of them of historical content. He has traveled around the world and lived in Africa, Brazil, the United States, Spain and Italy.

His first book, "Le Souffle Austral", is a thriller written jointly in Washington with another AFP journalist, Hervé Guilbaud, and published in 1988 by Flammarion. It was awarded the prize for the best thriller published that year in France and translated into several foreign languages including English under the title "Wind of death" (Berg International). In 1990, he published another book, co-written with René Centassi, "Tous les jours de mieux en mieux" (Robert Laffont), about French pharmacist Emile Coué, the father of modern positive thinking.

Among his other historical works: "Aux Frontières du Monde" (Ed. Jean Picollec, 2011), a description of the last important world explorations at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century, based on the articles of the geographical review Le Tour du Monde, a French equivalent of the National Geographic Magazine.

One of his latest book, "Un été impardonnable" (Albin Michel, 2016), is about the first three months of the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) and the scandalous non-intervention policy led by the three main western democracies (England, France and the United States), who refused to the help the Spanish Republic threatened by a military uprising supported by Hitler and Mussolini. The book has a preface written by Manuel Valls, the French Prime Minister of Spanish origins and was translated into Spanish.

His most recent books are "Pour la beauté du jeu" (Editions Kero, 2021), a text pleading for more elegance an decency in modern sports and "Lectures incorrectes" (Autopublication, 2022), the first volume of caustic reviews of historical Classics an recent Best-sellers. Other volumes will follow in 2023.