Françoise Bourdin | |
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Born | 1952 Paris, France |
Died | (aged 70) Vernon, France |
Occupation | Writer |
Françoise Bourdin (French pronunciation: [fʁɑ̃swaz buʁdɛ̃]; 1952 – 25 December 2022) was a French novelist. [1] [2]
Françoise Bourdin was born in Paris, France. Her father Roger Bourdin and her mother Géori Boué were both professional opera singers. [3] As a child she was interested in writing. She had already obtained her jockey license when she was 18, before she lost her first love in a racing accident a year later. She started her novel, Les soleils mouillés, when she was 20. [4] Bourdin cut back on her writing as she had children. She returned to writing when she was 40 with Les sirènes de Saint-Malo. [1]
Bourdin sold some 40 books in the last 25 years for a total of eight million sales. In 2011, she was in the 11th place on the French best-seller list. [4]
Bourdin died on 25 December 2022, at the age of 70. [5]
Françoise Bourdin | |
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Born | 1952 Paris, France |
Died | (aged 70) Vernon, France |
Occupation | Writer |
Françoise Bourdin (French pronunciation: [fʁɑ̃swaz buʁdɛ̃]; 1952 – 25 December 2022) was a French novelist. [1] [2]
Françoise Bourdin was born in Paris, France. Her father Roger Bourdin and her mother Géori Boué were both professional opera singers. [3] As a child she was interested in writing. She had already obtained her jockey license when she was 18, before she lost her first love in a racing accident a year later. She started her novel, Les soleils mouillés, when she was 20. [4] Bourdin cut back on her writing as she had children. She returned to writing when she was 40 with Les sirènes de Saint-Malo. [1]
Bourdin sold some 40 books in the last 25 years for a total of eight million sales. In 2011, she was in the 11th place on the French best-seller list. [4]
Bourdin died on 25 December 2022, at the age of 70. [5]