Patrick Besson (born 1 June 1956) is a French writer and journalist. Besson was born of a half Russian father and a Croatian mother. He published his first novel, Early Mornings of Love, in 1974, aged 17. A Communist sympathizer, Besson is a literary chronicler with the newspaper L'Humanité. He also wrote for the newspaper L'Idiot international, whose editor is Jean-Edern Hallier. Besson supported Serbia during the Yugoslav Wars, which created tension with other intellectuals like Michel Pola ...