Pierre Magnan

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Pierre Magnan (born September 19, 1922 in Manosque , † April 28, 2012 in Voiron ) was a French author of crime novels.

biography

Pierre Magnan attended school in his hometown until the age of twelve, which he left at the age of thirteen to work as a typesetter in a printing company. At the age of twenty he was drafted into the youth work service ( Service du Travail Obligatoire ), deserted and fled to the French resistance fighters ( maquis ) of the Isère department . In 1946 he published his first novel, which was received positively by the critics, but had little success with the public. The following three novels were also not a hit with the public. He earned his living in the following years as an employee of a transport company, but in his spare time he continued to write novels that no one wanted to publish.

It was not until 1976 that the detective novel Le sang des Atrides received attention and two years later it received the Prix ​​du Quai des Orfèvres . Now a new career began for Magnan. In 1984 he wrote his best-known work La Maison assassinée , which was also awarded and filmed. In his crime novels, his fictional character, Commissioner Laviolette, mainly investigates Provence . Pierre Magnan lived in Forcalquier until his death .

Awards

Works

memoirs
Novels
  • The girl from the end of the world. Novel. Heidelberg Reading Times Verlag, Heidelberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-943137-23-1 .
  • Laure du bout du monde. Novel. Denoël, Paris 2006, ISBN 2-207-25868-8 .
  • L'amant du poivre d'âne. Novel . Denoël, Paris 1989, ISBN 2-207-23511-4 .
  • La biasse de mon père . Mouvement "Alpes de Lumière", Mane 1992.
  • La folie Forcalquier. Novel . Denoël, Paris 1995, ISBN 2-207-24349-4 .
  • Un grison d'Arcadie. Novel . Denoël, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-207-24826-7 .
  • L'homme rejeté. Novel . Édition de l'Envol, Forcalquier 2001, ISBN 2-909907-81-3 (reprint of the Paris 1977 edition).
  • Laure du bout du monde. Novel . Denoël, Paris 2006, ISBN 2-207-25868-8 .
  • Ma Provence d'heureuse rencontre. Guide secret . Denoël, Paris 2005, ISBN 2-207-25705-3 .
  • Mon théâtre d'ombres . Édition de l'Envol, Forcalquier 2002, ISBN 2-909907-85-6 .
  • La naine. Novel . Denoël, Paris 1994, ISBN 2-07-038887-5 .
  • L'Occitane. Une histoire vraie . Denoël, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-207-25229-9 .
  • Périple d'un cachalot . Denoël, Paris 1993, ISBN 2-07-039326-7 .
  • Pour saluer Giono . Denoël, Paris 1993, ISBN 2-07-038589-2 .
  • Walled world. Roman ("Le monde encerclé"). Victoria-Verlag, Stuttgart 1953.
  • Unexpected dawn. Roman ("L'aube insolite"). Publishing house of Frankfurter Hefte, Frankfurt / M. 1950
  • "Séraphin Monge"
    • The murdered house. A detective novel from Provence ("La maison assassinée"). Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 2015, ISBN 978-3596305858 .
    • Le mystère de Séraphin Monge . Gallimard, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-07-040829-9 .
  • "Commissioner Laviolette"
    • The room behind the mirror. Roman ("Le sang des Atrides"). Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 2015, ISBN 978-3596301768 .
    • Laviolette on a truffle hunt. A detective novel from Provence ("Le commissaire dans la truffière"). Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 2015, ISBN 978-3596303168 .
    • Death under the wisteria. A detective novel from Provence ("Le secret des Andrônes"). Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 2015, ISBN 978-3596301812 .
    • Death in bronze ("Le tombeau d'Helios"). Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 2015, ISBN 978-3596304868 .
    • Les Charbonniers de la mort . Gallimard, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-07-040817-5 .
    • The murderer with the beautiful handwriting. A detective novel from Provence ("Les courriers de la mort"). Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 2015, ISBN 978-3596305384 .
    • Le parme convient à Laviolette . Denoël, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-07-041930-4 .
    • Elégie pour laviolette . Robert Laffont, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2221116586 .
    • Commissioner Laviolette's secret. Crime stories ("Les secrets de Laviolette"). Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 2015, ISBN 978-3596305162 .
Illustrated book

TV adaptations

  • Le sang des Atrides , 1981, by Sam Itzkovitch and Michel Lebrun; Director: Sam Itzkovitch
  • Le secret des Andrônes , 1982, by Bruno Tardon; Director: Sam Itzkovitch
  • La Maison assassinée , 1988, by Jacky Cukier and Georges Lautner; Directed by Georges Lautner .
  • L'aube insolite , 2002, by Pierre Magnan; Director: Claude Grinberg
  • Les Courriers de la mort , 2006, by Odile Barski; Directed by Philomène Esposito , with Victor Lanoux in the role of Commissioner Laviolette

Radio plays

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Magnan, Pierre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French author
DATE OF BIRTH September 19, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Manosque
DATE OF DEATH April 28, 2012
Place of death Voiron