Christophe Boltanski is a French journalist and author. He wrote for the daily newspaper Liberation for a long time, was a war correspondent during the Second Gulf War and correspondent in Jerusalem and London, later at the magazine Le Nouvel Observateur (today: Le nouvel Obs) and editor-in-chief of the magazine Revue XXI. His reportages were honoured with the Prix Bayeux-Calvados des corresponants de guerre, his novel La Cache about his family with the Prix Femina. Boltanski is also the author of several non-fiction books (including „Die sieben Leben des Jassir Arafat, 1997; „Bethlehem: 2000 Jahre Passion“, 2000)