Alain Dugrand (16 October 1946, Lyon) is a French journalist, traveller and writer.
Alain Dugrand was among the journalists who created the newspaper Libération.[1] As a traveller, he worked for the magazines GEO and National Geographic.
In 1979, he founded a journal devoted to crime fiction: Gang
with Hervé Prudon .He was the creator and director of the magazine Gulliver from 1990 to 1993.[2]
He launched the "Carrefour des littératures européennes de Strasbourg" (1985) then the Étonnants voyageursSaint-Malo, with Michel Le Bris.
festival ofHe presides the Prix Nicolas Bouvier and is also the author of several novels.