Voldemar Lestienne (2 December 1931 – 1 December 1990 in Paris) was a French writer and journalist, winner of the 1975

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Biography

Voldemar Lestienne is a journalist and a reporter before becoming deputy editor-in-chief of the newspaper ''

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'' and then deputy director of ''

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''.''Fin de carrière pour l'écrivain Voldemar Lestienne''
by Pierre Maury in ''

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'' 26 December 1990. At the same time, he wrote a career as a writer with two successful sales novels, ''Furioso'' and ''Fracasso'' - transpositions of Dumas's ''

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'' in the context of the Second World War, and was rewarded by the

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for ''L'Amant de poche'' (1975) and which was his latest novel though.

Work

*1958: ''Dillinger'' *1958: ''Furioso'' *1973: ''Fracasso'', Livre de Poche, *1975: ''L'Amant de poche'' —

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References

External links

Voldemar Lestienne
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''Les furieux fracas de Voldemar Lestienne''
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