Jean-François Coatmeur (26 July 1925 – 11 December 2017) was a French crime fiction writer.
He was born in
Pouldavid, near
Douarnenez in 1925, and later moved to
Brest. In 1976, he won the
Grand Prix de Littérature Policière for ''Les Sirènes de minuit''. His 1980 work ''La Bavure'' was awarded the
Prix Mystère de la critique in 1981. In 1992, Coatmeur received the
Prix Bretagne for ''Des croix sur la mer''. He died in Brest at the age of 92 on 11 December 2017.
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1925 births
2017 deaths
Writers from Brest, France
People from Douarnenez
French crime fiction writers
20th-century French non-fiction writers
21st-century French non-fiction writers
20th-century French male writers