The son of General Raymond de Cessole and Françoise Laubiès, Bruno de Cessole is a journalist for
Le Figaro, ''
L'Express, Le Point, a literary critic at Les Nouvelles littéraires and Les Lettres Françaises, as well as director of the Revue des deux Mondes''. He was then editor-in-chief of
Jours de Chasse and of the cultural department of
Valeurs actuelles, and collaborated with the ''''. In 2009, his novel ''L'Heure de la fermeture dans les jardins d'Occident'' won the
prix des Deux Magots. In 2015, he was awarded the Prix Henri-Gal for Literature of the
Académie française for his entire body of work. In early 2016, after the purchase of the newspaper by
Étienne Mougeotte,
Charles Villeneuve and
Iskandar Safa, he left
Valeurs actuelles. Married to Béatrice Delettrez, a Professor of Law, he is the father of two sons and two daughters. == Works ==