Jean-Pierre Ohl

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Jean-Pierre Ohl (born 1959) is a French writer. He was born in Onesse-Laharie, a small village in the Landes forest in Southwest France. After studying literature he began working in independent bookstores. Thanks to his brother, the writer Michel Ohl, he discovered Charles Dickens who has had a great influence on his books and to whom he devoted a biography in 2011.

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- Prix Emmanuel Roblès 2005

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References

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