Dominique Lapierre, in Madrid in 2008Carlos Alvarez/Getty Image
He was the writer of ‘bestsellers’ reminiscent of ‘The City of Joy’ or ‘Bigger Than Love’. Many of those works had been written with the American Larry Collins. Between 1954 and 1967 he labored as a reporter for Paris Match journal.
French author Dominique Lapierre, writer of worldwide bestsellers reminiscent of The City of Joy, Greater Than Love, Is Paris Burning?, Midnight and Five in Bhopal, has died on the age of 91. This is confirmed by Mondadori, who has printed his books in Italy.
Many of these works had been written with the American Larry Collins.
Between 1954 and 1967 he labored as a reporter for Paris Match journal.
To write The City of Joy (1982), his best-known e-book, he spent two years researching in a Calcutta shanty city. It was tailored to the cinema in 1992.
In 1982, with the help of Mother Teresa of Calcutta, Lapierre and his spouse based the Action pour les enfants des lépreux de Calcutta affiliation, to which they donated half of their royalties, in favor of colleges and facilities for the combat towards leprosy. and tuberculosis.
Life
Dominique Lapierre was born on December 5, 1931 in Châtelaillon-Plage, France. He grew up in a household of writers and began writing at a younger age. At 18, he moved to Paris to review journalism and literature on the Sorbonne. During his time in Paris, he labored as a journalist for numerous newspapers and magazines.
In 1954, Lapierre traveled to Latin America to cowl the Guatemalan Revolution. There she met Larry Collins. In 1956, Lapierre and Collins printed her first e-book, Is Paris Burning?, which grew to become a bestseller and was translated into a number of languages. There she started her already unstoppable profession, with books like Oh Jerusalem, Freedom tonight or The Fifth Horseman.