Franck Maubert
Franck Maubert, born on October 24, 1955, in Provins, is a French essayist and novelist. He divides his time between Paris and the Touraine region. Editor-in-chief of Globe magazine at its inception and an art critic for L'Express in the 1980s, he also co-created, with Thierry Ardisson, the television programs "Bains de minuit" and "Paris dernière." A passionate art lover, he specializes in 20th-century painting. Franck Maubert is a writer, author of novels (Est-ce bien la nuit?, Stock, 2002), numerous art books (Maeght, une aventure de l'art vivant, with Y. and I. Maeght, La Martinière, 2006), and a book of interviews with Francis Bacon (L'odeur du sang humain ne me quitte pas des yeux, Mille et une nuits, 2009), which has been translated into several languages.
