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  1. Jean-Patrick Manchette (19 December 1942, Marseille – 3 June 1995, Paris [1]) 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 ...

  2. Jean-Patrick Manchette, né le à Marseille et mort le à Paris 12e, est un écrivain français, auteur de romans policiers, critique littéraire et de cinéma, scénariste et dialoguiste de cinéma, et traducteur. Reconnu comme l'un des auteurs les plus marquants du polar français des années 1970-1980, il est également connu pour ses ...

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  4. Dec 4, 2020 · Jean-Patrick Manchette (1942-1995) was a prolific French crime novelist, film and TV scriptwriter, translator, critic, and all-around laborer in Grub Street. His greatest achievement, almost certainly, was the cycle of ten or so dark social novels he produced in the 1970s the wake of (and much under the influence of) the May 1968 uprising in […]

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  5. Aug 5, 2020 · Jean-Patrick Manchette’s protagonists are isolatoes. Georges Gerfault in Three to Kill, Julie Ballanger in The Mad and the Bad, Martin Terrier in The Prone Gunman, Aimée Joubert in Fatale: windowless monads, all of them. Memorable, violent, alone. Eugène Tarpon, Manchette’s private eye in No Room at the Morgue, is among these nations of ...

  6. Jun 3, 1995 · edit data. Jean-Patrick Manchette 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 the 1970s - 1980s . His stories are violent, existentialist explorations of the human ...

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  7. Jun 25, 2020 · In addition to translating works of psychoanalysis, he has been active in the field of noir fiction, translating Thierry Jonquet’s Mygale (aka Tarantula), Yasmina Khadra’s Cousin K in collaboration with Alyson Waters; and several novels by Jean-Patrick Manchette. He is a member of the Translators’ Association of the Society of Authors and ...

  8. SIDELIGHTS: Jean-Patrick Manchette was an amateur jazz saxophonist, political activist, and film and screen writer who wrote nearly a dozen noir novels, primarily during the 1970s. He was one of the leading contributors to the "polar" genre that incorporated politics and culture into crime and mystery novels.

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