Christine Bravo

Christine Bravo (born 13 May 1956) is a French television presenter, journalist, columnist and author. Christine Bravo was born in Paris, her father Antonio Bravo was a Spanish mason from Toledo. At the age of 18, she left her family to live in Paris. She met one year earlier Jean-Paul Sartre, while creating the newspaper Libération, in which she collaborates with the philosopher. After graduating in history at the Paris Diderot University, she passed the contest of normal school and became a teacher from 1979 to 1982.

In 1980, she lived for one year in Tijuana, Mexico. After coming back to France, she published with an editor of Flammarion her first autobiographical novel Avenida B. In 1983, she participated at a contest organized by Le Matin de Paris. The theme for the contestants was to write a letter about their vacation. The letter of Christine Bravo received the first prize and was published in the daily newspaper.

Jean-Dominique Bauby, the chief editor of the culture section, engaged her as a journalist, where she stayed until the end of publication of the newspaper. Christine Bravo became later a columnist for Elle and also collaborated for Le Journal du dimanche, L'Événement du jeudi, France Soir, Paris Match and Cosmopolitan. In 1988, she began her career in television and started collaborating with Frédéric Mitterrand in his program Permission de minuit.