Best-selling novelist Françoise Bourdin, one of the most widely read authors in France with more than 15 million books sold, died on Sunday December 25.
Françoise Bourdin, born in 1952 in Paris, is the author of around fifty books that have met with immense success. Several of his books have been adapted for television. His latest novel Such a beautiful horizon was released by Plon editions in May 2022. The 70-year-old writer died on December 25, 2022.
” I extend my most sincere condolences to the family of Françoise Bourdin, to her two daughters, Fabienne and Frédérique, to her grandchildren, I am thinking of all the teams, from Belfond, from Plon and from Pocket, who have worked with her for so many years, as well as to its millions of loyal readers “, declared the managing director of the Editis publishing group, Michèle Benbunan.
Ignored from the literary world
Often described as “popular”, his work, which began in the 1970s, has remained in the shadow of that of Guillaume Musso, for example. ” There is a certain contempt for popular literature “, she had regretted in 2019 during an interview with AFP. ” People who despise what I write have obviously never read a single paragraph. It’s very unfair. It is a priori elitist. »
She publishes her first novel, Wet suns, in 1972 when she was not yet of age. A second novel Waves of yellow grassappeared the following year and was adapted for television by Josée Dayan.
The novelist, installed in a large Norman farmhouse in the Seine valley, not far from Giverny, stood immovable in front of her computer every morning to write. ” If the inspiration does not come, I will walk in the forest with my dogs “, she said. More often than not, the inspiration was there. Extremely productive, she published one or two novels a year.
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(With AFP)