Paul-Jean Hérault

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Paul-Jean Hérault (often also called P.-J. Hérault ) is the pseudonym of Michel Rigaud (born September 22, 1934 in Paris ), French writer and journalist. He is best known as an author of science fiction . Here he has written over 40 novels since 1975. In 2005 he was awarded the prestigious Prix ​​Cyrano for his life's work in French science fiction .

Life

Michel Rigaud was born in the 14th arrondissement of Paris. After attending various high schools, he studied law at the Faculté de droit de Paris and journalism at the Ecole Supérieure de Journalisme and finally at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Sociales et Internationales . During the Algerian War, he served as an intelligence officer. His experiences during this time had a formative influence.

After returning to civilian life, he worked as a journalist for various newspapers and magazines, including Paris-Presse , Candide , L'Aurore and Paris-Jour . Eventually he became editor at RTL and then news chief at Télé Star . He also realized his dream of flying, became a private pilot, flew with gliders and powered aircraft and in 1972 co-founded Aviation 2000 , a monthly magazine for aviation. In addition to his passion for flying in all forms - except skydiving and hang-gliding - he does sports as diverse as sailing, diving, skiing and fencing.

In the early 1970s, he had the idea of ​​writing spy novels, using information from his aviation reports. Réseaux Sommeil , the first of three spy novels, was published in 1971 by Fleuve Noir . In addition to the crime novels, the same publisher published the science fiction series Anticipation , for which he began to write from 1975, when Le rescapé de la Terre , the first volume of his space opera cycle Cal de Ter , which is his best-known work, appeared .

Today, Hérault is a recognized and productive author to the present day. The novel Les clones déviants was translated into English as The Clone Rebellion in 2015 . German translations are not available.

Awards

bibliography

The series are arranged according to the year of publication of the first part.

Cal de Ter (series of novels)
  • 1 Le rescapé de la Terre (1975)
  • 2 Les bâtisseurs du monde (1976)
  • 3 La planète folle (1976)
  • 4 Hors contrôle (1978)
  • 5 37 minutes pour survivre ... (1979)
  • 6 Chak de Palar (1980)
  • 7 Cal de Ter (1983)
  • Le secret des Loys (2007, short story)
  • Cal de Ter: L'intégrale, tome 1 (2012, collective edition from 1 to 3)
  • Cal de Ter: L'intégrale, tome 2 (2012, collective edition of 4 and 5)
  • Cal de Ter: L'intégrale, tome 3 (2013, collective edition of 6, 7 and Le secret des Loys )
Gurvan / Durée des équipages
61 missions (novel series)
  • 1 Sergent-Pilote Gurvan (1987)
  • 2 Gurvan: Les premières victoires (1987)
  • 3 Officier-Pilote Gurvan (1988)
  • Gurvan l'intégrale (2012, collective edition from 1 to 3)
La treizième génération (series of novels)
  • 1 Ross and Berkel (1990)
  • 2 Pedric et Bo (1990)
  • La Treizième Génération (2016, collective edition of 1 and 2)
Guerre aerienne (series of novels)
  • Le Franzous (2006)
  • Le Gamin de spa 36 (2012)
Millecrabe (series of novels)
  • 1 Millecrabe (2009)
  • 2 Le Terrible hiver 1947 (2010)
  • 3 Le Grand Bluff (2010)
Spy novels
  • Réseaux Sommeil (1971)
  • Strategy détonateur (1971)
  • Le Barrage maudit (1972)
Science fiction novels
  • La fresque (1980)
  • Le dernier pilote (1984)
  • Le bricolo (1985)
  • Le raid infernal (1986)
  • La famille (1987)
  • Le loupiot (1991)
  • Danger: Mémoire (1991)
  • Hors normes (1992)
  • Le chineur de l'espace (1995)
  • Ceux qui ne voulaient pas mourir (1996)
  • La fédération de l'Amas (2004)
  • Les clones déviants (2005)
  • Regression (2006)
  • La grande migration (2008)
  • Quand il ne reste que l'honneur ... (2011)
  • L'androcomb (2017)

literature

Web links

Commons : Paul-Jean Hérault  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Portrait de PJ HERAULT. ( Memento from August 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Hérault, Paul-Jean
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rigaud, Michel (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris