Jean Vautrin (who also worked under his real name, Jean Herman) won the prix Goncourt (1989) and, aside from his fiction -- especially his thrillers -- was also a successful film director (hey, Farewell, Friend (1968) co-starred Alain Delon and Charles Bronson; The Sunday of Life is based on the Raymond Queneau novel).
Not accomplishment enough for the English-speaking media (even the news agencies ...) to note his passing, apparently.
But he dead; see, for example, the report in Libération.
The Voice of the People is apparently the only one of his books to make it into English; get your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk. Surprising -- and those thrillers might be worth another look for some enterprising US/UK publisher .....
The Voice of the People is apparently the only one of his books to make it into English; get your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk. Surprising -- and those thrillers might be worth another look for some enterprising US/UK publisher .....