Pascal Bruckner was born on December 15, 1948 in Paris, France.
Bruckner’s novel Bitter Moon was made into a film by Roman Polanski. His other works include The Temptation of Innocence: Living in the Age of Entitlement, Lunes de fiel, Parias, and The Tears of the White Man: Compassion as Contempt.
He was awarded the Academie Fran?@aise Prix 2000 and Medici Prize 1995 for Essays.