François Maspero

François Maspero (19 January 1932, in Paris – 11 April 2015, in Paris) was a French author and journalist, best known as a publisher of leftist books in the 1970s. He also worked as a translator, translating the works of Joseph Conrad, Mehdi Ben Barka, and John Reed, author of Ten Days that Shook the World, among others. He was awarded the Prix Décembre in 1990 for Les Passagers du Roissy-Express.

François Maspero
François Maspero
Born(1932-01-19)19 January 1932
Paris, France
Died11 April 2015(2015-04-11) (aged 83)
Paris, France
NationalityFrench
Occupation(s)Author, journalist
Political partyFrench Communist Party
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