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Jean-Patrick Manchette
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19 Dec 1942
† 03 Jun 1995
Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
Biography
Jean-Patrick Manchette (19 December 1942, Marseille – 3 June 1995, Paris) was a French crime novelist credited with reinventing and reinvigorating the genre. He wrote ten short novels in the seventies and early eighties, and is widely recognized as the foremost French crime fiction author of that period. His stories are violent explorations of the human condition and French society. Manchette was politically to the left and his writing reflects this through his analysis of social positions and c...
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Patrick Manchette
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