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Boileau-Narcejac is the pen name of Pierre Boileau and Pierre Ayraud, a French crime-writing duo who created the genre of psychological suspense. They wrote 43 novels, 100 short stories and 4 plays, and their works were adapted into films by Clouzot and Hitchcock.
Boileau-Narcejac est le nom de plume de Pierre Louis Boileau et Pierre Ayraud, écrivains français de romans policiers. Découvrez leur parcours, leurs collaborations, leurs adaptations cinématographiques et leurs séries littéraires.
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- Pierre Ayraud
- 28 avril 1906Paris 9e ( France)
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.
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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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 .
- Pierre Boileau
- 1954
Biography. Boileau-Narcejac is the nom de plume under which French crime fiction writers Pierre Boileau (28 April 1906, Paris – 16 January 1989, Beaulieu-sur-Mer) and Pierre Ayraud, aka Thomas Narcejac (3 July 1908, Rochefort-sur-Mer – 9 June 1998, Nice) collaborated.
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...
