Christian Salmon is a member of the CNRS (the French National Centre for Scientific Research), and the founder in 1993 — with the support of over three hundred intellectuals spread out across five continents — of the International Parliament of Writers. He has worked with a number newspapers, including the national dailies Libération and Le Monde, and he has been an editorial writer for the online investigative journal Mediapart since 2013. He is the author of Storytelling (La Découverte, 2007).
