Alain Dugrand (16 October 1946, Lyon) is a French journalist, traveller and writer.
Alain Dugrand was among the journalists who created the newspaper Libération. 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.
He launched the "Carrefour des littératures européennes de Strasbourg" (1985) then the Étonnants voyageurs festival of Saint-Malo, with Michel Le Bris.
He presides the Prix Nicolas Bouvier and is also the author of several novels.
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