Death of the writer Didier Decoin: from Goncourt to La Hague, he was "the adventurer of stories"
Thanks to the Goncourt Prize awarded to his 10th novel, "John Hell", Didier Decoin had acquired in 1977, a house typical of this part of the world.
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His name is associated with Marcel Carné ("The Wonderful Visit" in 1974) to Lucas Belvaux ('38 witnesses'), in 2012, adaptation of a... Very esteemed of his peers, this man who said he was voting for a book that would have pleased his mother, had himself received the prestigious Goncourt Prize in 1977, in his thirty-third year, with "John the Hell" (Seuil). JOSEPH EID / AFP Member of the Goncourt jury since 1995, of which he was also president from 2020 to 2024, Didier Decoin fired his reverence on Wednesday 5 August, at 81 years old, in a room at Villejuif hospital.
Furthermore, Died at 81, Wednesday, August 5, 2026, the writer was considered by the author and literary critic Frédéric Beigbeder as "a kind of symbol of the great national novelist".
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His name is associated with Marcel Carné ("The Wonderful Visit" in 1974) to Lucas Belvaux ('38 witnesses'), in 2012, adaptation of a...
according to Ouest-France — À la UneVery esteemed of his peers, this man who said he was voting for a book that would have pleased his mother, had himself received the prestigious Goncourt Prize in 1977, in his thirty-third year, with "John the Hell" (Seuil).
according to L'ObsJOSEPH EID / AFP Member of the Goncourt jury since 1995, of which he was also president from 2020 to 2024, Didier Decoin fired his reverence on Wednesday 5 August, at 81 years old, in a room at Villejuif hospital.
according to L'ObsDied at 81, Wednesday, August 5, 2026, the writer was considered by the author and literary critic Frédéric Beigbeder as "a kind of symbol of the great national novelist".
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