Herve Jaouen

Herve Jaouen is a writer born in 1946 with Quimper.

It starts to write as of age the sixteen years and its first manuscript receives the encouragement of Jean-Edern Hallier. It was intended for studies of letters, the chance leads it to make studies of right and economy and to begin a career in the bank. Is 24 years old, he becomes branch manager - and will remain it during thirteen years.

In 1979, it inaugurates a very new collection of whodunnits, " Gears " , by the red Bride . In the years which follow he affirms himself like one of the Masters of the French black novel.

From 1983, it gives itself the means of writing while not working more that part-time at the bank which it will leave a few years later. the Good-bye in the islands (Mazarine, 1986), devotes it as very short writer and either only like one author of whodunnits.

In love with Ireland where it goes several times per annum, it pays to him homage in many books, in particular Journal of Ireland , followed Irish Chroniques , then of the Cocaine of the peat bogs .

Writer " endowed with diversité" , Herve Jaouen also published books for youth: at Gallimard, the black book , the road of freedom and Granny Memory (price Stopwatches 2000 (Michel Lebrun).

He is also the author of original screenplays of which two gave telefilms: Guards of the sea , C. Hérissey, and a good deal , of Serge Meynard.

Herve Jaouen obtained many prices of which the price of Suspense for Quai of the Pit and the Grand Prix of police literature for underground Hôpital which has as a framework the island of Jersey. the star Teaser enables him to add its name to the prestigious prize list of the Populist Price where one notes the names of Jules Romains, Henri Troyat, Jean-Paul Sartre, Louis Guilloux, Bernard Clavel, André Stil, Rene Fallet, Christiane Rochefort, and of good of other famous authors. Its novel, That my ground remains (Presses of the City, 2001) received the Brittany price in 2002. Several of its works were translated in various languages.

To date five of its novels were adapted on television: the monster of the Black lake within the framework of emissions for youth, the red Bride by Jean-Pierre Bastid, Histoire of shades by Denys Granier-Removes iron, Endetteurs (under the title Credit-Happiness) by Luc Béraud and underground Hôpital by Serge Meynard.

Internet site: http://www.hervejaouen.fr

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