Dominique Lapierre (born 1931 in Châtelaillon, near La Rochelle, France) is a French author. Year 1931 ( MCMXXXI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1931 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Châtelaillon-Plage is a commune in the Charente-Maritime department in western France. La Rochelle is a city in western France, and a Seaport on the Bay of Biscay, a part of the Atlantic Ocean. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. An author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created
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Life
Lapierre was born in La Rochelle, France, and graduated from Lafayette College, Pennsylvania. La Rochelle is a city in western France, and a Seaport on the Bay of Biscay, a part of the Atlantic Ocean. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. He spent 14 years as an international reporter with the news magazine Paris Match. Paris match (band is also a Japanese musical group Paris Match is a French weekly Magazine.
Two of Lapierre's books - 'Is Paris Burning? (co-written with Larry Collins) and City of Joy - have been made into films. Is Paris Burning? (French Paris brûle-t-il?) is a 1966 Franco - American film dealing with the 1944 Liberation Larry Collins, born John Lawrence Collins Jr, ( September 14, 1929, Hartford Connecticut &ndash June 20, 2005, Fréjus City of Joy is a novel written by Dominique Lapierre (1985 and a 1992 film directed by Roland Joffé. Lapierre and Collins wrote several other books together, the last being Is New York Burning? (2005), before Collins' 2005 death.
Since 1982, Lapierre has shared his royalties with the non-profit City of Joy Foundation, which provides aid to slum children in Calcutta and West Bengal. West Bengal ( Bengali: পশ্চিমবঙ্গ Poshchim Bônggo poʃtʃim bɔŋgo is a state in eastern India. The royalties from Five Past Midnight in Bhopal go to the Sambhavna clinic in Bhopal which provides free medical treatment to the victims of the 1984 Union Carbide Bhopal disaster. The Bhopal disaster was an Industrial disaster that occurred in the city of Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, resulting in the immediate deaths Lapierre also funds a primary school in Oriya Basti, one of the settlements described in Five Past Midnight in Bhopal. Dominique Lapierre speaks fluently Bengali. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan, India's third highest civilian award in the 2008 Republic Day honours list.
He has one daughter, Alexandra, also a writer, and lives in the south of France.
Bibliography
With Larry Collins
- 'Is Paris Burning?' —Adolf Hitler, August 25, 1944 ("Paris brûle-t-il?", 1965)
- Or I'll Dress You in Mourning (". Is Paris Burning? (French Paris brûle-t-il?) is a 1966 Franco - American film dealing with the 1944 Liberation . . Où tu porteras mon deuil", 1968)
- O Jerusalem! (Ô Jérusalem, 1972), ISBN 0-671-21163-3
- Freedom at Midnight ("Cette nuit la liberté", 1975), ISBN 0-671-22088-8
- The Fifth Horseman ("Le Cinquième cavalier", 1980), ISBN 0-671-24316-0
- Is New York Burning? ("New-York brûle-t-il?", 2005), ISBN 1-59777-520-7
Solo
- The City of Joy ("La Cité de la joie", 1985), ISBN 0-385-18952-4
- Beyond Love ("Plus grands que l'amour", 1990), ISBN 0-446-51438-1
- A Thousand Suns ("Mille soleils", 1999), ISBN 0-446-52535-9
- Once Upon a Time in the USSR ("Il était une fois l'URSS", forthcoming 2006)
With Javier Moro
- Five Past Midnight in Bhopal ("Il était minuit cinq à Bhopal", 2001), ISBN 0-446-53088-3
External links
- 1985 audio interview with Dominique Lapierre by Don Swaim at Wired for Books. O Jerusalem! is a history book by Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins which seeks to capture the events and struggles surrounding the creation of the state Freedom at Midnight (1975 is a book by Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins. City of Joy is a novel written by Dominique Lapierre (1985 and a 1992 film directed by Roland Joffé. Don Swaim (born 1936 is an American journalist and broadcaster. Wired for Books is an online educational project of the WOUB Center for Public Media at Ohio University in Athens Ohio.
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