Jacques Goimard (May 31, 1934 – October 25, 2012) was a French writer of

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and

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. He is also an

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Biography

He was born in 1934 in La Couronne, France. He taught at Henri-IV, a secondary school, before teaching

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and

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as well as running a literary seminar at the

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and the

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. He has written several anthologies,

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, and

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. He has also written several movie reviews, and has written in the magazines ''Fiction'' and '' Métal Hurlant'' and in the newspaper ''

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''.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Goimard, Jacques French science fiction writers 1934 births 2012 deaths French male novelists 20th-century French novelists 20th-century French male writers