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Pierre Boulle
AuthorBooks · Second hand1912-1994
Pierre François Marie Louis Boulle was a French author. He is best known for two works, The Bridge over the River Kwai (1952) and Planet of the Apes (1963), that were both made into award-winning films.
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Birth
1912
Death
1994
First book
1950
Years writing
44
Pierre Boulle was a prolific French author who wrote over 180 works throughout his career.
His famous novel The Bridge Over the River Kwai was adapted into a film that won multiple Academy Awards.
Boulle received an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay despite not having written the script and not speaking English.
His Oscar acceptance speech is remembered as one of the shortest in history, consisting only of the word Merci.
In addition to his work as a novelist and screenwriter, Boulle was professionally trained as an engineer.