He gained notoriety writing about detective Camille Verhoeven in his drama series.įor his crime fiction, he won more than eight prizes in literature including the 2009 Francophone Polar Prize and the 2010 European Polar Prize. The two had managed to concoct a major scam using fictitious war memorials.Įven before Pierre Lemaitre had found a lot of success with his award-winning novel “Au revoir la-Haut,” he enthralled fans of the roman noir genre. By the time he got France’s most prestigious literary award in the Goncourt in 2013, he had numerous other awards and at least seven books to his name.Īu Revoir la-Haut was a huge departure from what he had written before as he wrote an interesting story featuring two former Frenchy soldiers that had fought in the First World War.

He has had quite the unusual literary career as he founded a training agency, then started teaching French and American literature to librarians, before turning to the writing of thriller fiction.Įver since he published “Travail Soigne” in 2006, he has become one of the most prolific authors. The Paris-born author has made his name as one of the most popular contemporary roman noir authors writing in French. While he has come to be a prolific fiction author, he still loves to write screenplays from time to time. Pierre Lemaitre is a bestselling literary fiction author from France that is best known for his “Commandant Camille Verhoeven” series of novels.īefore she became a bestselling author, Lemaitre worked as a screenwriter, and even earlier than that, he was working as a teacher of literature.

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