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Jean-Patrick Manchette
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- December 19, 1942
- Died
- June 03, 1995
- Works
- 33
Top works
- Griffu
- Kuldesak
- Fatale
- LA LOCA DEL LABERINTO
- CUERPO A TIERRA
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Film & TV
Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
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…
Known for
- Apostrophes — Self1975
- Bartleby — A servile employee1970
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- Listeners
- 16
- Total plays
- 93
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Patrick
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Marseille
- Place of death
- 12th arrondissement of Paris
- Occupation
- comics artist
- Employer
- Charlie Hebdo
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- French
- Field of work
- science fiction literature
- Genre
- crime literature
- Movement
- libertarian
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- name in native language
- Jean Manchette
- date of birth
- 1942-12-19
- date of death
- 1995-06-03
- cause of death
- pancreatic cancer
- manner of death
- natural causes
- writing language
- French
- birth name
- Jean Patrick Manchette
- pseudonym
- Pierre Duchesne
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