Pascal Bruckner is a French novelist and essayist. He lives until the age of 6 in a sanatorium in Austria. He studied at the Jesuits in Lyon, studied in Paris, high school Henri-IV (hypokhâgne and khâgne), at the University Paris I and at the University of Paris VII, then at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes. His doctoral thesis, devoted to sexual emancipation in the thought of the utopian socialist Charles Fourier, entitled "The body of everyone is accessible to all", was directed by Roland Barthes and supported in 1975 at the University of Paris VII.

From 1983 to 1988, he was a member of the board of directors of Action Against Hunger. Since 1990, he has been a lecturer at the Institute of Political Studies in Paris. From 1992 to 1999, he militated against Serbian aggression in the former Yugoslavia, first in Croatia, then in Bosnia and Kosovo. In 1999, he defended NATO's military intervention against Serbian forces. In 2003, in favor of the dismissal of Saddam Hussein, he supported the military intervention in Iraq in an article published in Le Monde, co-signed with a group of intellectuals.

Pascal Bruckner is the author, among others, of "The Temptation of Innocence" (Medici Prize of the Essay, 1995), "The Thieves of Beauty" (Renaudot Prize, 1997), "Misery of Prosperity" (Price the best book of economy and awards Today, 2002), "The fanaticism of the Apocalypse" (price Risks, 2011), "A good son" (Prize Transfuse of the best French pocket, 2015).

In addition to his writing activities, Pascal Bruckner is a publisher at Grasset. He collaborates with Nouvel Observateur, Le Monde and Causeur.