Patrick de Saint-Exupéry (born 1962) is the son of Count Jacques de Saint-Exupéry and the Countess de Saint-Exupéry, born as Martine d’Anglejan. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the aviator and writer, was the cousin of his grandfather. Patrick started his career in journalism at age 19 after winning a young reporters award.
He has worked for several newspapers :
- France Soir Magazine starting in 1983 ;
- France Soir at the foreign service in 1987 ;
- Freelancer for L’Express and Grands Reportages in 1988 ;
- Le Figaro, foreign service desk, starting in 1989.During the course of his career he has covered events in Africa, Cambodia, Canada, Liberia, South Africa, the Gulf War, Iran, Libya, Saudi Arabia and Rwanda, and finally Moscow, where he was a permanent correspondent from 2000 to 2004. In 2005 he resumed working in Africa again as a journalist for Le Figaro.
He won the Albert Londres Award in 1991 for his series of reports on the Liberian civil war and on the end of apartheid. Patrick de Saint-Exupéry is also a member of the Albert Londres Award’s jury.In 2004 Saint-Exupéry wrote a book entirely devoted to the role of France in Rwanda, entitled L’Inavouable (Unspeakable), in which he led …
