The French novelist Françoise Bourdin, author of "best sellers" who signed
half a hundred works and sold more than 15 million books
, died at the age of 70, her editorial said Monday.
The death took place this Sunday, said the publishing house Editis, which sent a message of condolences to his family through social networks.
In half a century of literary activity, which
began at the age of 20 and her first novel
, "Les soleils mouillés", Bourdin published one book a year, if not two, because she had a break when she became a mother, and she was a regular at the country's best-seller lists.
The break came to a halt with the simultaneous publication of two books, which began his enormous literary work,
very well received by the public and very poorly by critics.
A wound that he never hid and that he attributed to the contempt of the literary community for popular books.
Bourdin
also signed film and television scripts
, in the midst of his enormous literary work that in 2014 led him to place up to four works in bookstores.
"They describe me as discreet, but it is not true. I have never refused an interview, it is the media that have left me in the dark," he said in a recent interview.
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