Winock is the author of Siècle des intellectuels (Century of Intellectuals, 1997), for which he received the Prix Médicis in 1997[2] in the essay category. He also wrote Voix de la liberté (Voice of Liberty, 2001), acknowledged by the Académie française, and directed the Dictionnaire des intellectuels français with Jacques Juillard. He won the 2010 Prix Goncourt de la Biographie for Madame de Stael.
Biography
Winock became doctor of letters achieving his agrégation d'histoire in 1961. He started his career in secondary school teaching at the lycée in Montpellier, then at the Lycée Hoche in Versailles and the lycée Lakanal in Sceaux. The creation of the University of Vincennes following the Faure reform of 1968 opened the doors of higher education to him. Winock also led a career as an editor. He was member of the Esprit magazine from 1964, and became an adviser, then literary director to Éditions du Seuil. In 1978, a year after leaving Esprit, he founded L'Histoire magazine with the aim of making the best historical research accessible to the public. Author of about 40 works, Winock is today one of the most prolific and esteemed French historians.
Winock was one of the initiators of the Liberté pour l'histoire (freedom for history) petition.[3] Winock participated in the administrative council of the association with the same name.
Bibliography
Madame de Stael, 2010
La Gauche en France, 2006
La Mêlée présidentielle, 2007
Clémenceau, 2007
1958. La naissance de la Ve République, coll. "Découvertes Gallimard" (n° 525), 2008
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^Magazine littéraire, 2005, p. 326, OCLC 220743000
^"[LDH-Toulon] l'appel des 19 historiens : "Liberté pour l'histoire !"". ldh-toulon.net. Archived from the original on 2014-05-14.