Frédéric Dard (1992) by Erling Mandelmann

Frédéric Dard (Frédéric Charles Antoine Dard; 29 June 1921, in

Bourgoin-Jallieu Bourgoin-Jallieu (; frp, Brégon) is a commune in the Isère department in the region of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes in France. The city had 28,834 inhabitants in 2019 and lies 35 kilometres east-southeast of Lyon. It was formed by the merger of the ...

Isère Isère ( , ; frp, Isera; oc, Isèra, ) is a landlocked department in the southeastern French region of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Named after the river Isère, it had a population of 1,271,166 in 2019.Fribourg , neighboring_municipalities= Düdingen, Givisiez, Granges-Paccot, Marly, Pierrafortscha, Sankt Ursen, Tafers, Villars-sur-Glâne , twintowns = Rueil-Malmaison (France) , website = www.ville-fribourg.ch , Location of , Location of () () o ...

, Switzerland) was a French crime writer. He wrote more than three hundred novels, plays and screenplays, under his own name and a variety of pseudonyms, including the ''San-Antonio'' book series.

Biography

Frédéric Dard wrote 175 adventures of San-Antonio, of which millions of copies were sold. Detective Superintendent Antoine San-Antonio is a kind of French James Bond without gadgets, flanked by two colleagues, the old, sickly but wise inspector César Pinaud and the gargantuesque inspector Alexandre-Benoît Bérurier. He is a member of the French secret service and has to fulfill impossible missions given by "Le Vieux" (''the Old Man''), later known as "Achilles", the head of the French police. With the help of his colleagues he always succeeds through various adventures. Dard won the 1957 Grand prix de littérature policière for ''The Executioner Weeps''.

Bibliography

San-Antonio adventures have been translated into different languages, such as Italian,

Romanian Romanian may refer to: *anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Romania **Romanians, an ethnic group **Romanian language, a Romance language ***Romanian dialects, variants of the Romanian language **Romanian cuisine, traditional ...

and

Russian Russian(s) refers to anything related to Russia, including: *Russians (, ''russkiye''), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries *Rossiyane (), Russian language term for all citizens and peo ...

. A few have been translated into English: *''Tough Justice (Messieurs les hommes)'', b
Cyril Buhler

Sphere Books Sphere Books is the name of two British paperback publishers. History The original Sphere Books was launched in 1966 by Thomson Corporation. Sphere was sold to Pearson PLC in 1985 and became part of Penguin. The name was retired in 1990. In 19 ...

, London, 1967;

Duckworth Duckworth may refer to: * Duckworth (surname), people with the surname ''Duckworth'' * Duckworth (''DuckTales''), fictional butler from the television series ''DuckTales'' * Duckworth Books, a British publishing house * , a frigate * Duckworth, W ...

, London, 1969;

Norton Norton may refer to: Places Norton, meaning 'north settlement' in Old English, is a common place name. Places named Norton include: Canada *Rural Municipality of Norton No. 69, Saskatchewan *Norton Parish, New Brunswick **Norton, New Brunswick, a ...

, New York, 1969;

Paperback Library Hachette Book Group (HBG) is a publishing company owned by Hachette Livre, the largest publishing company in France, and the third largest trade and educational publisher in the world. Hachette Livre is a wholly owned subsidiary of Lagardère Grou ...

63-287, New York *''Stone Dead (C'est mort et ça ne sait pas)'', by Cyril Buhler, 1969, Paperback Library 63-283, New York, 1970 *''Thugs And Bottles (Du brut pour les brutes)'', by Cyril Buhler, Sphere Books, London, 1969; Paperback Library 63-306, New York, 1970 *''The Strangler (La fin des haricots)'', by Cyril Buhler, 1968, Sphere Books, London, 1969; Paperback Library 63-326, New York, 1970 *''Knights Of Arabia (Bérurier au sérail)'', by Cyril Buhler, Duckworth, London, 1969; Paperback Library 63-341, New York, 1970 *''From A To Z'' (De "A" jusqu'à "Z"), by Hugh Campbell, Duckworth, 1970, (9780715604106); Paperback Library 63-352, 1970 *''Crook's Hill'', Paperback Library 63-342, New York *''The Sub Killers (La rate au court bouillon)'', by Cyril Buhler, Michael Joseph, 1971, (9780718108687) *''Alien Archipelago (L'archipel des malotrus)'', by Hugh Campbell, Michael Joseph, London, 1971, (9780718108694) Apart from San-Antonio, Dard wrote number under various other pseudonyms, including Frederic Antony, Verne Goody, William Blessings, Cornel Milk, Frederic Charles and L'Ange Noir.

Pushkin Press Pushkin Press is a British-based publishing house dedicated to publishing novels, essays, memoirs and children's books. The London-based company was founded in 1997 and is notable for publishing authors such as Stefan Zweig, Marcel Aymé, Anta ...

published a number of Dard novels written under his own name in the 1950s-1960s: *''The Wicked Go to Hell (Les salauds vont en enfer)'', 2016; *''Bird in a Cage (Le monte-charge)'', 2016; *''Crush (Les Scélérats)'', 2016; *''The Executioner Weeps (Le bourreau pleure)'', 2017; *''The King of Fools (La pelouse)'', 2017; *''The Gravediggers' Bread (Le Pain des fossoyeurs)'', 2018;

References

External links

*
Frédéric Dard
in

Encyclopædia Britannica The (Latin for "British Encyclopædia") is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia. It is published by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.; the company has existed since the 18th century, although it has changed ownership various time ...

Online
Analysis of the ''San-Antonio'' crime novels
{{DEFAULTSORT:Dard, Frederic 1921 births 2000 deaths People from Bourgoin-Jallieu French crime fiction writers Writers from Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes 20th-century French novelists French male novelists 20th-century French male writers

Biography

Bibliography

Further reading

References

External links