The French writer with more than 40 million pounds sold died this Thursday, February 6, at 78 years old. Paul-Loup Sulitzer had recently had health concerns.
A page turns. Paul-Loup Sulitzer, the French writer died at the age of 78, announced his daughter, Olivia Sulitzer, to AFP this Thursday, February 6. “He died this morning at the hospital following a stroke,” she said, adding that his father had been hospitalized several days ago after a fall. The septuagenarian died in Mauritius, an island of the Indian Ocean where he had left to live “to regain health” according to his daughter.
The writer who died after a stroke had already suffered from a similar attack in 2004 reports AFP. In 2011, the man also confided having undergone “two comas” by evoking the disastrous consequences that Angolagate had had (a case of arms trafficking in the 1990s) in which he had been indicted, then Sentenced in 2008 before being released on appeal.
Author of several stars novels of the 1980s, like Money,, Cash And FortunePaul-Loup Sulitzer had sold more than 40 million pounds worldwide during his career. He was also a very prolific writer who has long published a book per year. It was he who gave birth to a new literary genre: the “financial western”, a mixture of several universes giving rise to politico-financial thrillers.
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12:50 – Two strokes and “two comas”
Paul-Loup Sulitzer died from a stroke according to his daughter. The writer had already suffered from an attack in 2004 reports BFMTV. Regarding his health problems, the author of successful books declared in 2011 that he had made two comas after his legal setbacks, in particular the Angolagate trial in 2008. His conviction although followed by a relaxation and the consequences of the judgment had affected her a lot: “I was ten years under judicial supervision, I was taken my passport. My career as an international financial advisor was discredited and I made two comas”.
12:45 – He was on Maurine “to resume a little health”
Born in Boulogne-Billancourt, Paul-Loup has long lived in Paris. Discreet in recent years, he lived in Belgium and Nice according to his daughter. Recently, he had left to live in Mauritius, an island of the Indian Ocean close to Reunion, “to resume a little health. It was there that he died.
12:40 – Paul -Loup Sulitzer sentenced twice
Paul-Loup Sulitzer was a very publicized writer who was also involved and sentenced in two court cases. In 2005, he was sentenced to six months suspended prison sentence for tax fraud. And in 2008, he fell into the Angola sales affair at 15 months suspended prison sentence and 100,000 euros fine for “concealment of abuse of corporate goods”. The man had been indicted in the year 2000 in this second case. He also broadcast the day -to -day trial between October 2008 and March 2009 and published it in a book Angolagate, chronicle of a state scandal. He was then released on appeal.
12:34 – More than twenty books between 1980 and 2009
The writer’s career of Paul-Loup Sulitzer began with a blunt pace of a book by between 1980 and 1985. The publications then spaced and resumed an annual rate between 1997 and 2009 with an exception and a year without new book in 2003.
12:30 – The first successful books of Paul -Loup Sulitzer
The first book signed by Paul-Loup Sulitzer was published in 1980, it was a question of Money. The book is the first of the kind “financial western”, an adventure novel of finance-fiction. He follows the story of Franz Cimballi, a vigilante businessman, between exploits and chess and is accompanied by two suites: Cash! And Fortune Released respectively in 1981 and 1982.