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{{Short description|French author and editor (1936–2024)}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Éric Hazan
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=y|1936|07|23}}<ref>{{cite web
| birth_place = [[Paris]], [[French Third Republic|France]]
| url = https://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2024/06/06/eric-hazan-ecrivain-et-editeur-d-extreme-gauche-fondateur-de-la-maison-la-fabrique-est-mort_6237657_3382.html
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|2024|06|06|1936|07|23}}
| title = Eric Hazan, écrivain et éditeur d’extrême gauche, fondateur de la maison La Fabrique, est mort
| death_place = Paris, France
| last = Cosnard
| nationality = French
| first = Denis
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| date = 6 June 2024
| occupation = Author <br/> Editor
| website = lemonde.fr
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| publisher = [[Le Monde]]
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| access-date = 6 June 2024
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| quote = "Né à Neuilly-sur-Seine le 23 juillet 1936, il est élevé à Paris."
| education = [[Lycée Louis-le-Grand]]
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| birth_place = [[Paris]], [[French Third Republic|France]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|2024|06|06|1936|07|23}}
| death_place = Paris, France
| nationality = French
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| occupation = Author <br/> Editor
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| education = [[Lycée Louis-le-Grand]]
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==Biography==
Born in [[Paris]] in July 1936,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lafabrique.fr/notice_auteurs.php3?id_mot=29|title=Eric Hazan|work=La Fabrique|language=French|url-status=dead|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20090107031637/http://www.lafabrique.fr/notice_auteurs.php3?id_mot=29|archivedate=7 January 2009}}</ref> Hazan's mother was a Romanian Jew originally from Palestine,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.radiofrance.fr/personnes/eric-hazan|title=Eric Hazan|work=Radio France|language=French}}</ref> while his father, Fernand Hazan, was a Jewish man originally from Egypt and the brother of {{ill|Émile Hazan|fr}}, an editor and librarian.<ref>{{cite news |last=Vigoureux|first=Elsa|date=24 December 2008|title=Eric Hazan fait de la résistance|trans-title= |url=https://bibliobs.nouvelobs.com/essais/20081224.BIB2692/eric-hazan-fait-de-la-resistance.html|language=French|work=[[Le Nouvel Obs|Le Nouvel Observateur]]|location= |access-date=6 June 2024}}</ref> During [[World War II]], his family took refuge in [[Marseille]]. After the war, his father founded the publishing house {{ill|Éditions Hazan|fr}}. Éric attended the [[Lycée Louis-le-Grand]] and joined communist activists,<ref name="Cosnard">{{cite news |last=Cosnard|first=Denis|date=6 June 2024|title=Eric Hazan, écrivain et éditeur d’extrême gauche, fondateur de la maison La Fabrique, est mort|trans-title= |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2024/06/06/eric-hazan-ecrivain-et-editeur-d-extreme-gauche-fondateur-de-la-maison-la-fabrique-est-mort_6237657_3382.html|language=French|work=[[Le Monde]]|location= |access-date=6 June 2024}}</ref> as well as the [[National Liberation Front (Algeria)|National Liberation Front]] during the [[Algerian War]].<ref name="Politis">{{cite news |last= |first= |date=14 June 2007|title=Mondialisation et environnement|trans-title= |url=http://www.politis.fr/Mondialisation-et-environnement,1368.html|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://archive.md/rpPvy|archivedate=30 April 2013|language=French|work=[[Politis (magazine)|Politis]]|location= |access-date=6 June 2024}}</ref> He became a cardiovascular surgeon and campaigned for abortion rights in France.<ref name="Cosnard"/> In 1975, as a founder of the {{ill|Association France-Palestine Solidarité|fr}}, he travelled to Lebanon during the [[Lebanese Civil War|civil war]] to work as a combat doctor.<ref name="Politis"/> He was a member of the [[Russell Tribunal#2009–2014: On Palestine (Barcelona, London, Cape Town, New York, Brussels)|Russel Tribunal on Palestine]], which began work on 4 March 2009.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.russelltribunalonpalestine.org/pages/Parrains-1041547.html|title=Parrains|work=Russell Tribunal on Palestine|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090311114617/http://www.russelltribunalonpalestine.org/pages/Parrains-1041547.html|archivedate=11 March 2009}}</ref>
 
In 1983, Hazan gave up surgery and became director of the family publishing business, Éditions Hazan.<ref name="Cosnard"/> However, he left management after the publisher was acquired by [[Hachette Livre|Groupe Hachette]]. In 1998, he founded the publishing house La Fabrique ("The Factory"), where the works published were primarily left-wing and historical or philosophical.<ref>{{cite news |last=Crom|first=Nathalie|date=25 March 2004|title=Il y a six ans, Éric Hazan a fondé avec un groupe d'amis les Éditions La Fabrique, où sont publiés des essais historiques ou philosophiques, qui se veulent « ancrés politiquement à gauche de la gauche, mais sans céder à aucun esprit de chapelle, sans être inféodés à aucun groupe ni parti », des essais dont le point commun est de vouloir bousculer « le brouhaha consensuel et cotonneux » auquel, estime l'éditeur, est réduite la vie intellectuelle française|trans-title= |url=https://www.la-croix.com/Archives/2004-03-25/Il-y-a-six-ans-Eric-Hazan-a-fonde-avec-un-groupe-d-amis-les-Editions-La-Fabrique-ou-sont-publies-des-essais-historiques-ou-philosophiques-qui-se-veulent-ancres-politiquement-a-gauche-de-la-gauche-mais-sans-ceder-a-aucun-esprit-de-chapelle-sans-etre-infeodes-a-aucun-groupe-ni-parti-des-essais-dont-le-point-commun-est-de-vouloir-bousculer-le-brouhaha-consensuel-et-cotonneux-auquel-estime-l-editeur-est-reduite-la-vie-intellectuelle-francaise-_NP_-2004-03-25-204848|language=French|work=[[La Croix (newspaper)|La Croix]]|location= |access-date=6 June 2024}}</ref> He allegedly only published works by his friends according to ''[[Libération]]'', which included the authors [[Norman Finkelstein]] and [[Houria Bouteldja]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Faure|first=Sonya|last2=Girard|first2=Quentin|date=25 April 2018|title=Eric Hazan, 20 ans de Fabrique et de pavés|trans-title= |url=https://www.liberation.fr/debats/2018/04/25/eric-hazan-20-ans-de-fabrique-et-de-paves_1645889/|language=French|work=[[Libération]]|location= |access-date=6 June 2024}}</ref> ''[[The Coming Insurrection]]'', published, written by [[The Invisible Committee]] and published by La Fabrique was denounced by [[Minister of the Interior (France)|Minister of the Interior]] [[Michèle Alliot-Marie]] and led to Hazan's testimony in the {{ill|Tarnac affair|fr|Affaire de Tarnac}}.<ref name="Cosnard"/> He also wrote and translated more than twenty works, including those of [[Edward Said]].
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