french writer Dominique Lapierrethe author of n‘Bestsellers’ with multiple espionage and contemporary history themesA died at the age of 91, his wife confirmed to French media this Sunday.
The death occurred last Friday, according to information the widow gave to the Var-Matin sales point in the town of Ramatuelle in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region, where the author lives.
Born in Paris in 1931, Lapierre is known for his ‘works’, among other titles.city of happiness‘, poverty in Kolkata and these film director Roland Joffé made a version for the cinema in 1992
had happened Paris Match magazine correspondent and her experiences in india at that stage, they inspired this novel, which sold millions of copies and devoted part of its profits to fighting the misery in India.
Historical ‘Is Paris Burning?’ (1965), also co-signed with an American writer and journalist. Larry Collins.
With him, he wrote ‘Esta noche libertad’ about the life of the bullfighter and ‘O llares luto por mí’, published in 1968. Manuel Benítez ‘Cordovan’.
Another of his achievements was achieved with Javier Moro, with whom he co-published his book ‘It was midnight in Bhopal’. (2001), about a toxic gas leak from a North American factory built in Bhopal, India, which killed 30,000 people and injured five hundred thousand.