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Boileau-Narcejac is the pen name used by the French crime-writing duo of Pierre Boileau (28 April 1906 – 16 January 1989) and Pierre Ayraud, also known as Thomas Narcejac (3 July 1908 – 7 June 1998). Their successful collaboration produced 43 novels, 100 short stories and 4 plays.
Boileau-Narcejac est la signature commune de Pierre Louis Boileau (Paris 9 e, 28 avril 1906 - Beaulieu-sur-Mer, 16 janvier 1989 [1]) et Pierre Ayraud, dit Thomas Narcejac (Rochefort-sur-Mer, 3 juillet 1908 - Nice, 7 juin 1998 [2]), écrivains français de romans policiers, dont certains ont donné lieu à des adaptations ...
The Living and the Dead (also known as Vertigo) is a 1954 psychological mystery novel by Boileau-Narcejac, originally published in French as D'entre les morts ( lit. '"From Among the Dead"' ). It served as the basis for Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 film Vertigo .
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Pierre Boileau is currently the Head of the Global Environment Outlook programme at UN Environment. In this role, he has led his team to complete 6 regional environmental assessments, published in May, 2016, and now the global assessment for the sixth Global Environment Outlook, due to be published in March 2019.
T. Pierre Boileau and Pierre Ayraud (aka Thomas Narcejac) were French authors who specialized in police stories. They collaborated as "Boileau-Narcejac," with plots from Boileau. Narcejac provided most of the atmosphere and characterisations in each novel.
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Individually, Boileau and Narcejac were each winners of the prestigious Prix du Roman d'Aventures, awarded each year to the best work of detective fiction, French or foreign: Boileau for Le Repos de Bacchus in 1938 and Narcejac for La Mort est du Voyage in 1948, each a locked-room mystery.
Nov 13, 2015 · Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac enjoyed a spectacularly successful joint career in their native France (Hitchcock’s masterpiece Vertigo was based on their novel The Living and the Dead ). She...
