Pierre Lemaitre

Pierre Lemaitre is a French author and screenwriter, best known for crime novels featuring Commandant Camille Verhœven. His novel Alex won the CWA International Dagger for best translated crime novel of 2013, and that November he took the Prix Goncourt, France's top literary prize, for Au revoir là-haut, published in English as The Great Swindle, an epic about World War I. His novel Camille also won the CWA International Dagger in 2015, and The Great Swindle won it in 2016.