Pierre Lemaitre worked as a teacher in literature and now devotes his time writing novels and screenplays. His novels Camille and The Great Swindle won the CWA International Dagger in 20 respectively. 4, 2013 I can tell you in just two words why ALEX (MacLehose, 24.95), a thriller by the fashionable French author Pierre Lemaitre, was such a sensation in Europe. diteur : New York : MacLehose Press, c2013. Grippingly original. in Pierre Lemaitre he has unearthed another master of crime fiction destined to become a household name. In November 2013, he was awarded the Prix Goncourt, France's top literary prize, for Au revoir là-haut (published in English as The Great Swindle), an epic about World War I. Alex / Pierre Lematre translated from the French by Frank Wynne. Alex had me gripped more than almost any book I can remember, with one shout-out-aloud knockout twist after another Peter James MacLehose has done it again. 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. Pierre Lemaitre (born 19 April 1951) is a Prix Goncourt-winning French author and a screenwriter, internationally renowned for the crime novels featuring the fictional character Commandant Camille Verhœven.

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