Laurent Obertone (born 10 April 1984) is a French writer and journalist. He has written polemical books which the French media describes as reactionary. His first book, La France Orange mécaniquecivil war in France.
, became a bestseller in 2013. He is known for his novel trilogy Guérilla (2016–2022), which is aboutThe name Laurent Obertone is a pseudonym which the author began to use in 2010 when he wrote for the online magazine Ring.[1] The same year, the novelist Michel Houellebecq created media reactions by bringing Obertone to a dinner with President Nicolas Sarkozy at the Élysée Palace, following Houellebecq's Prix Goncourt win for The Map and the Territory.[2] Obertone received more attention in 2013 when his own book La France Orange mécanique (transl. The Clockwork Orange France) became a bestseller. The book is about increasing violence in France, which Obertone links to immigration and calls "the wildening" (French: l'ensauvagement) of the country.[1] It was followed by several polemical books, including 2015's La France Big Brother (transl. The Big Brother France), a critical analysis of how France is ruled which L'Express described as "reactionary" and "sexist".[3]
Obertone's writings have made an impact on France's far right,[4][1][5][6] mainstream right,[7][8][9] and a few government ministers in the cabinets of Édouard Philippe and Jean Castex.[10][11]
Obertone has written a trilogy of novels called Guérilla (2016–2022), which is about how civil war breaks out in France, spurred on by social media and mainstream journalists. The novels became bestsellers.[12]
Together with PapacitoLa Furia. The first issue was published in January 2022 and sold 60,000 copies.[13]
, Marsault and Laura Magné, he co-founded the quarterly satire magazine