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Frédéric Dard
Frédéric Dard (Frédéric Charles Antoine Dard, 29 June 1921 in Bourgoin-Jallieu, Isère - 6 June 2000 in Bonnefontaine, Fribourg, Switzerland) was one of the best known and loved French crime writers of the 20th century. Astonishingly prolific, he wrote more than three hundred novels, plays and screenplays, under his own name and a variety of pseudonyms which makes it very difficult to determine his exact output. His earned his iconic status in France due to the wildly popular "San-Antonio" book
The Gravediggers' Bread (Le Pain des fossoyeurs)", 2018;
Further reading.
There is no monograph on San-Antonio or Frédéric Dard in English.
- Dominique Jeannerod, "San-Antonio et son double", PUF, Paris, 2010
- Raymond Milési, "San-Antonio premier flic de France", DLM, Paris, 1996
- François Rivière, "Frédéric Dard ou la vie privée de San-Antonio", Fleuve Noir, Paris 2010
- Françoise Rullier-