Denis Tillinac (26 May 1947 – 26 September 2020) was a French writer and journalist. As a writer, he received the following literary prizes: Prix de la Table ronde française (1982), Prix Roger Nimier (1983), Prix Kléber-Haedens (1987), Prix Jacques-Chardonne (1990), Prix du roman populiste (1993), Grand prix de littérature sportive (1993), Prix Paul-Léautaud (1999). He wrote a weekly column in Valeurs actuelles. He was close to Jacques Chirac. In 2012, he wrote an open letter to Marine Le Pen to ask her to support Nicolas Sarkozy in the second round of the presidential election. He was a Catholic and wrote books about the Catholic origins of France. Tillinac died on 26 September 2020 at the age of 73. Source: Article "Denis Tillinac" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.