After fourteen years, 500 programs, more than 2,000 guest authors including 26 Goncourt and a dozen nobelFrançois Busnel leaves the set of “La Grande Librairie” but will remain the producer.
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Journalist, producer and host of the weekly literary program “The Great Library” on France 5, which he has hosted since 2008, François Busnel announces in The Parisian from Friday 1 July that he “will no longer present the show”.
After 14 years, 500 broadcasts, more than 2,000 guest authors including 26 Goncourt and a dozen Nobel, he will however remain the producer and prepare other projects.
The one who will present his last show on July 6 was also editor-in-chief of the Books department of The Express from 2006 to 2008, producer of the daily “The Great Interview” on France Inter between 2010 and 2013, editorial director of the magazine Read between 2004 and 2015, columnist at The Express between 2008 and 2015 and founder and editorial director of the magazine America between 2017 and 2021.
François Busnel will continue to present the reading competition for young people “If we read aloud” and the “Little Bookseller”, while dreaming of relaunching the documentary collection A century of writers, he indicates to Parisian.
However, he does not stop the show since he remains a producer. “of this show that I created and that I love deeply” he told the newspaper, specifying: “I’m just changing positions. I’ll be on the other side of the screen.”
It is this desire for new challenges that pushes him to “to make cinema films and series, to write and shoot documentaries, to produce new talents… I’m bubbling with envy”.
And if he abandons the animation of the show, it is to have more time: “While talking with Delphine Ernotte-Cunci and Stéphane Sitbon-Gomez about literature on television, the idea of creating a mini-series about a great writer of the 20th century was born. It will be a fiction that I will write and direct. But this project, which I want to carry out, is incompatible with the presentation of the Grande Librairie which requires reading five to six books a week”, he explains again to the newspaper The Parisian.
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