Dominique Lapierre, a French writer with a passion for India and whose novels sold millions of copies, has died, his wife announced
Dominique Lapierre, a French writer with a passion for India and whose novels sold hundreds of millions of copies, has died, his wife announced.
"At 91, he died of old age," Dominique Conchon-Lapierre told French newspaper Var-Matin on Sunday.
She said she is "at peace and serene because Dominic is no longer a victim".
Born in Châtelillon on July 30, 1931, Lapierre has sold nearly 50 million copies of six books written in collaboration with American author Larry Collins - most famously "Is Paris Burning?"
The non-fiction book, published in 1965, moved events up to August 1944, when Nazi Germany relinquished control of the French capital, and was adapted for the silver screen by Francis Ford Coppola and Gore Vidal.
His 1985 novel "City of Joy" – about the hardships of a rickshaw puller in Kolkata – was also a huge success. A film based on it was released in 1992, starring Patrick Swayze and directed by Roland Joffe.
Lapierre donated the bulk of his royalties from "City of Joy" to support humanitarian projects in India.
In 2005, he said that thanks to this move, as well as readers' donations, "it became possible to cure one million tuberculosis patients in 24 years (and) care for 9,000 leprosy patients".
"Is Paris Burning?" After, he continued his fruitful partnership with Collins.
The duo co-wrote "Or I'll Dress You in the Morning" (1968), "O Jerusalem" (1972), "Freedom at Midnight" (1975), "The Fifth Horseman" (1980), and the thriller "Is New York Burning?"
For a long time, Lapierre lived near Collins in Saint-Tropez, their residences separated by a tennis court.
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