French novelist Françoise Bourdin died on Sunday at the age of 70. Never invited on television sets and rarely quoted in the literary pages of newspapers, she was nevertheless one of the ten best-selling writers in France.
With more than 15 million books sold, translated into 12 languages, she is the author of nearly fifty books which have met with immense success, some of which have been adapted for television, such as ‘Terre indigo’.
“I send my most sincere condolences to the family of Françoise Bourdin, to her two daughters, Fabienne and Frédérique”, said in a press release the general manager of the publishing group Editis, Michèle Benbunan, announcing her death in a press release. forwarded to AFP.
Her latest book, ‘Un si beau horizon’, was released by Plon editions in early 2022. ‘There is a certain contempt for popular literature’, regretted the novelist to AFP in 2019.
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