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Boileau, Pierre

Country/Region:
France
Born:
April 28, 1906
Dead:
January 16, 1989
Genres:
Miscellaneous prose, Crime literature, Children's literature
Portrait image of Pierre Boileau Pierre Boileau (left) with Pierre Ayraud Photo: Jean-Claude Deutsch/Paris Match / Getty Images (1977)
Pierre Boileau was one half of the partnership (and the brand) Boileau-Narcejac, which can best be described as French crime writing institution. The other half was Pierre Ayraud (writing under the pseudonym Thomas Narcejac). Both authors wrote detective novels both independently and together, many of which were made into popular films. They were also prominent figures on the French literary scene in the late 1900s and they wrote a number of often quoted reference works. Some claim that Boileau and Narcejac have been as important to French crime writing as Ellery Queen in the US.

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