Pierre Magnan (19 September 1922 – 28 April 2012) was a French crime fiction writer.

Early life

Pierre Magnan was born on 19 September 1922 in

Manosque Manosque (; Provençal Occitan: ''Manòsca'' in classical norm or ''Manosco'' in Mistralian norm) is the largest town and commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France. However, it is not the ''préfecture'' (capital ...

. At the age of 13 he started working as a typographer and two years later started to write. His style was influenced by

Jean Giono Jean Giono (30 March 1895 – 8 October 1970) was a French writer who wrote works of fiction mostly set in the Provence region of France. First period Jean Giono was born to a family of modest means, his father a cobbler of Piedmontese descent a ...

to whom he will dedicate a book later called ''To Greet Giono''. During

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he became acquainted with a novelist Thyde Monnier, who by 1946 published his work for the

Éditions Julliard Éditions Julliard is a French publishing house. It was founded in 1942 by René Julliard. Julliard was known as a discoverer and publisher of talents, in particular Françoise Sagan and Jean d'Ormesson. After Julliard's death in July 1962, the ...

Awards

His awards include

Prix du Quai des Orfèvres The Prix du Quai des Orfèvres is an annual French literature award created in 1946 by Jacques Catineau. It goes to an unpublished manuscript for a French-language police novel. The selected novel is then published by a major French publishing hous ...

from 1978, for ''Le Sang des Atrides'', the Martin Beck Award in 1983, for ''Le Commissaire dans la truffière'', for best crime fiction translated into Swedish language, and

Prix Mystère de la critique The Prix Mystère de la critique was established in 1972 by ', published by from 1948 to 1976, and is one of the oldest French awards for a detective novel. It continues to be awarded each year by its founder, Georges Rieben and his team, and ha ...

in 1985, for ''La Maison assassinée''.

References

1922 births 2012 deaths People from Manosque French male novelists French crime fiction writers 20th-century French novelists 20th-century French male writers {{France-writer-stub