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Jean-Christophe Grangé is a French writer and screenwriter.

For a long time, he worked as a freelance journalist, contributing to many well-known periodicals. Grangé used his journalistic experience in writing novels that, while belonging to the thriller-detective genre, often address complex topics such as international terrorism, political extremism, and the dubious activities of occult organizations.

After receiving a master’s degree from the Sorbonne, based on work on Gustave Flaubert, Grangé became a copywriter and worked at an advertising agency. In 1989, at the age of 28, he became a well-known international correspondent, working for such magazines as Paris Match, Sunday Times, and National Geographic.

He then began working as a freelancer, operating his own company, L & G, and paying for his own travels. The reports he wrote from various countries around the world became an important source of inspiration for his literary works. It was during this period that he received two major awards in journalism: the Reuters Prize (1991) and the World Press Award (1992).

In 1994, Grangé wrote his first novel, The Flight of the Storks, which attracted more attention from critics than from the general public. However, his second novel, The Purple Rivers, published in 1998, became quite popular, especially after it was adapted into a film in 2000.

In the following years, the writer created several more novels, wrote the screenplay for the film Vidocq, and the text for the comic The Curse of the Zener.

Jean-Christophe was married to journalist Virginie Luc; he has three children: Louis, Mathilde, and Ise.

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