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Pierre Lemaitre

1951 - Today

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Pierre Lemaitre (born 19 April 1951) is a Prix Goncourt-winning French author and a screenwriter, internationally renowned for the crime novels featuring the fictional character Commandant Camille Verhœven. His first novel to be translated into English, Alex, is a translation of the French book of the same title, it jointly won the CWA International Dagger for best translated crime novel of 2013. In November 2013, he was awarded the Prix Goncourt, France's top literary prize, for Au revoir là-haut (published in English as The Great Swindle), an epic about World War I. His novels Camille and The Great Swindle won the CWA International Dagger in 2015 and 2016 respectively. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pierre Lemaitre is the 2,180th most popular writer (down from 1,838th in 2019), the 2,450th most popular biography from France (down from 2,085th in 2019) and the 306th most popular French Writer.

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Among writers, Pierre Lemaitre ranks 2,180 out of 7,302. Before him are Aleksander Chodźko, Yuan Mei, Judith Kerr, Cesare Zavattini, Asclepiades of Samos, and Håkan Nesser. After him are George Tabori, Thorbjørn Egner, Terry Eagleton, Gaston III, Count of Foix, Andrey Kurkov, and Juan Ruiz de Alarcón.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1951, Pierre Lemaitre ranks 142. Before him are Julian Schnabel, David Vunagi, Karen Allen, Christian Lacroix, Markku Alén, and Francesco Moser. After him are K. K. Downing, Salih Muslim, Choei Sato, Bill Viola, Sally Ride, and Walter de Silva.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre Lemaitre ranks 2,450 out of 6,770. Before him are Marie Bracquemond (1840), Isabelle Aubret (1938), Édouard René de Laboulaye (1811), René Caillié (1799), Aurore Clément (1945), and François Devienne (1759). After him are François Blondel (1618), Charles Cousin-Montauban, Comte de Palikao (1796), Gaston III, Count of Foix (1331), Louis Armand I, Prince of Conti (1661), Boso, Margrave of Tuscany (885), and Edgar Faure (1908).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Pierre Lemaitre ranks 306. Before him are Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens (1704), Étienne Jodelle (1532), Yvan Goll (1891), Roger Peyrefitte (1907), Philippe Sollers (1936), and Bernard Palissy (1510). After him are Gaston III, Count of Foix (1331), Sébastien Japrisot (1931), Bernardus Silvestris (1085), Michel Leiris (1901), Elena Poniatowska (1932), and Gaston Paris (1839).

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