Gérard Pussey | |
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Born | Villeneuve-Saint-Georges, France | 20 June 1947
Gérard Pussey (born 20 June 1947) is a French writer and novelist.
Born in Villeneuve-Saint-Georges. A journalist and literary critic, Pussey is first of all a novelist. Initiated to literature by his uncle, the writer and screenwriter René Fallet, Pussey is winner of the prix Roger Nimier, (1980), the prix Alexandre Vialatte and that of the Société des gens de lettres. He appeared several times on the last lists of the prix Renaudot and the prix Interallié.
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