Claude Mesplède
Claude Mesplède is a literary critic, specialist in the Detective novel.
Biography
Born in 1939 with Saint-Laurent-with-the-Prée (Charente-Maritime). Electrician in aeronautics, it worked with Air France of 1957 to 1993, alternating professional work and local and national trade-union functions. Impassioned literature since always, he quickly discovers the popular novelists and the American black novel. Its first work Voyage at the end of Black the (1982), written in collaboration with J. - J. Schleret, constitutes the first exhaustive dictionary on the " Series noire". First demonstration of an extraordinary work of critic and anthologist which, with the wire of innumerable articles and many volumes, will lead it to conceive and direct the drafting of the Dictionnaire of the police literatures appeared in 2003, work without equivalent which approaches the literary kind in all its aspects, at all the times and a universal scale. Claude Mesplède was, between 1995 and 1998 President of 813, the association of the friends of the police literature. He signed chronicles for the review Polar , the Amazon sites and mauvaisgenres.com. Claude Mesplède was also director of collection to the Éditions of the Rock.
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