Pierre Apestéguy

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Pierre Apestéguy , occasionally Pierre Apesteguy , (* 1912 in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department , † November 17, 1972 ) was a French writer of Basque origin .

Life

Apestéguy worked for years as a journalist for the magazine “Le petit Parisien”. After the end of the war , he was also managing director of Enzo-Film for some time . As such, he also wrote scripts, some of which were filmed by his company.

In addition to his actual work, there were several detective novels over the years that were positively reviewed by contemporary literary critics . Apestéguy wrote some of them under the pseudonym Franck Marshal .

Honors

Works (selection)

Venus cycle
  • Venus in Texas. Criminal novel ("Vénus au Texas"). Goldmann, Munich 1964.
  • Venus is going into the weekend. Criminal novel ("Vénus et le chien secret"). Goldmann, Munich 1964.
  • Venus going astray. Criminal novel ("Les Hold-up de Vénus"). Goldmann, Munich 1964.
  • Venus saves her reputation. Criminal novel ("Une fusée pour Vénus"). Goldmann, Munich 1965.
  • Venus flirts with death. Criminal novel ("Vénus flirte avec la morte"). Goldmann, Munich 1962.
Other crime novels
  • Au nom du père . Paris 1960.
  • La dame d'onze heure . Librairie des Champs-Élysées, Paris 1938 (Le masque; 262).
  • SOS Nathalie . Paris 1962 (as Franck Marshal).
  • La stupéfiante affaire Vandevelde . Paris 1967 (as Franck Marshal).
Others
  • Cœurs basques . Fasquelle, Paris 1933.
  • Gachucha. Roman basque . Fasquelle, Paris 1934.
  • La vie profonde d' Edmond Rostand . Charpentier & Fasquelle, Paris 1929.

Filmography

  • 1946: Les souvenirs ne sont pas à vendre - Director: Robert Hennion
  • 1946: Wedding in the smugglers' village (Le mariage de Ramuntcho) - Director: Max de Vaucorbeil
  • 1947: SOS - 11 a.m. (La dame d'onze heures) - Director: Jean Devaivre (based on the novel "La dame d'onze heures")
  • 1949: Les eaux troubles .. - Director: Henri Calef
  • 1957: Natali (Nathalie) - Director: Christian-Jaque
  • 1958: Et ta sœur .. - Director: Maurice Delbez
  • 1959: Nathalie plays a secret agent (Nathalie, agent secret) - Director: Henri Decoin

literature

  • Armin Arnold u. a. (Ed.): Reclams Kriminalromanführer . Reclam, Stuttgart 1978, ISBN 3-15-010279-0 , pp. 56-57.
  • Pierre Boileau , Thomas Narcejac : The detective novel ("Le roman policier"). Luchterhand publishing house, Neuwied 1967.

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personal data
SURNAME Apestéguy, Pierre
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Apesteguy, Pierre; Marshal, Franck (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French writer of Basque origin
DATE OF BIRTH 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Pyrénées-Atlantiques department
DATE OF DEATH 17th November 1972