Pierre Lemaitre

Pierre Lemaitre born 19 April 1951 in Paris is a Prix Goncourtwinning 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 Frances top literary prize for Au revoir làhaut 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 Source Article Pierre Lemaitre from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30