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Pierre François Marie Louis Boulle (20 February 1912 – 30 January 1994) was a French author. He is best known for two works, The Bridge over the River Kwai (1952) and Planet of the Apes (1963), that were both made into award-winning films.
Aug 3, 2014 · Today few people have heard of Pierre Boulle. He was the French author who first had the brilliant idea of humans travelling in time and stumbling on ape civilisation. It was in his 1963 novel...
Notable Works: “E=mc 2 ”. “Planet of the Apes”. “The Bridge on the River Kwai”. Pierre Boulle (born February 20, 1912, Avignon, France—died January 30, 1994, Paris) was a French novelist who successfully combined adventure and psychology in works dealing largely with his experiences in Southeast Asia, especially in Malaya.
May 10, 2024 · Pierre Boulle is one of the most translated French authors in the world. He is also one of the most forgotten. Author of 40 novels and books of short stories, this French engineer and soldier...
La Planète des singes, known in English as Planet of the Apes in the US and Monkey Planet in the UK, is a 1963 science fiction novel by French author Pierre Boulle. It was adapted into the 1968 film Planet of the Apes, launching the Planet of the Apes media franchise.
Pierre Boulle has 126 books on Goodreads with 96714 ratings. Pierre Boulle’s most popular book is Planet of the Apes.
About the Author. Pierre Boulle was born in Avignon, France, in 1912. He originally trained as an engineer, but in 1936 he went to Malaysia and worked as a rubber planter. In 1939 he was called up in the French forces in Indochina, and when France fell during World War II, he fled to Singapore, where he joined the Free French Mission.
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