biography
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Boulle, Pierre (-François-Marie-Louis)
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pronunciation:
[bool]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1912–94)
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| biography:
| Novelist, born in Avignon, SE France. He studied to become an electrical engineer but instead went to Asia, where he spent eight years as a planter and soldier. He took the descriptive material for his novels from his travels there, and frequently set his plots against a colonial background. His best-known work is Le Pont de la rivière Kwai (1952, The Bridge on the River Kwai, 1954) which received the prix Sainte-Beuve in 1959, the same year it was made into an Oscar-winning film. He then turned to writing novels of the fantastic, including Contes de l'absurde (1953), and to science fiction, La Planète des singes (1963, Planet of the Apes), which was also made into a popular series of film (beginning in 1968). Later books include Les Oreilles de jungle (1972), Le Bon Leviathan (1978), and A nous deux Satan (1992). |
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