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Pierre Boulle

Pierre Boulle was a French novelist largely known for two famous works, The Bridge Over the River Kwai (1952) and Planet of the Apes (1963).

David Lean made The Bridge over the River Kwai into a motion picture that won several 1957 Oscars, including the Best Picture, and Best Actor for Alec Guinness. Boulle himself won the award for Best Adapted Screenplay despite not having written the screenplay and, by his own admission, not even speaking English. (He gave what is said to be the shortest acceptance speech in Academy Award history, the single word "Merci".) Boulle had been credited with the screenplay because the film's actual writers, Carl Foreman and Michael Wilson, had been blacklisted as communist sympathizers. Pierre Boulle was neither a Socialist nor a Communist. The Motion Picture Academy added Foreman's and Wilson's names to the award in 1984.

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French novelist (1912–1994)

Born 20 February 1912
Died 30 January 1994

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  • Cover of: The bridge on the River Kwai

    First published in 1952 95 editions in 5 languages — 10 previewable Cover of edition bridgeonriverkwa0000boul_k5s6 Cover of edition lepontdelarivier0000boul Cover of edition bridgeonriverkwa0000boul_m2c0 Cover of edition bridgeoverriverk1963boul Cover of edition bridgeoverriverk00boul Cover of edition bridgeoverriverk0000boul Cover of edition bridgeoverriverk0000boul_l0i8 Cover of edition bridgeoverriverk00pier Cover of edition bridgeoverriver00boul
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  • Cover of: La planète des singes

    First published in 1963 60 editions in 5 languages — 6 previewable Cover of edition laplanetedessing0000boul Cover of edition laplanetedessing0000boul_b4j5 Cover of edition planetofapespier0000unse Cover of edition planetofapes00pier Cover of edition planetofapes00boul
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  • Cover of: The Falklands Whale

    First published in 1983 5 editions in 2 languages — 2 previewable Cover of edition falklandswhale0000boul
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  • Cover of: E=mc2: récits

    First published in 1957 4 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable
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    First published in 2014 3 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: Great war stories

    First published in 1980 2 editions in 1 language — 2 previewable Cover of edition greatwarstories0009unse_w9w9
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  • Cover of: Not the glory;

    First published in 1955 2 editions — 1 previewable
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    First published in 1959 2 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: The marvelous palace and other stories

    First published in 1977 2 editions in 1 language — 2 previewable Cover of edition marvelouspalaceo00boul
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    First published in 1973 2 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: The other side of the coin.

    First published in 1958 2 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: La face: roman

    First published in 2008 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: De wonderen van de Gargantua

    First published in 1980 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: An impartial eye

    First published in 1968 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: Ears of the jungle.

    First published in 1974 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: Histoires perfides.

    First published in 1976 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: Le bon Léviathan: roman.

    First published in 1978 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: La Planete DES Singes (French Edition)

    First published in 2004 1 edition — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: Garden on the moon

    First published in 1965 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: Because it is absurd (on earth as in heaven)

    First published in 1971 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable
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French novelist (1912–1994)

Born 20 February 1912
Died 30 January 1994
Subjects
Fiction, Falkland Islands War, 1982, Whales, World War, 1939-1945, Fiction, general, French fiction, Admiral Graf Spee (Battleship), Apes, Apparitions, Burma, Burma-Siam Railroad, Burma-Siam Railroad in fiction, Children's fiction, Fanaticism, Ficción, Fiction, science fiction, action & adventure, Fiction, science fiction, general, Fiction, war & military, Films, French Personal narratives, French Short stories, French language edition, French literature, Guerra Mundial II, 1939-1945, Heroin
Places
France, Southeast Asia
Time
2500

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Alternative names

  • Pierre (translated from the French by Patricia Wolf Boulle
  • Boulle Pierre
  • BOULLE Pierre
  • Boulle, Pierre,
  • Boulle. Pierre ( Translated from the French by Xan Fielding)
  • Пьер Буль

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