Dominique Fabre (novelist)

{{For|the currently publishing author|Dominique Fabre}}

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| name = Dominique Fabre

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| birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1929|06|30}}

| birth_place = Geneva, Switzerland

| death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|2010|12|20|1929|06|30}}

| death_place = Pfeffikon, Switzerland

| nationality = Swiss

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| known_for = Un Beau Monstre

| occupation = screenwriter, novelist, journalist

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Dominique Fabre ({{IPA|fr|dɔminik fabʁ}}; 30 June 1929 – 20 December 2010) was a Swiss screenwriter and novelist.{{Cite web|url=http://fichesauteurs.canalblog.com/archives/2011/10/20/22405186.html|title=FABRE, Dominique - Fiches livres|date=2011-10-20|website=fichesauteurs.canalblog.com|language=fr|access-date=2019-08-19}} His book Un Beau Monstre received the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière in 1968.{{cite web|url=http://www.librairiesoleilvert.com/article-24894886.html|title=GRAND PRIX DE LITTERATURE POLICIERE|publisher=Librairie Soleil Vert|access-date=10 April 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110904194608/http://www.librairiesoleilvert.com/article-24894886.html|archive-date=4 September 2011}} He is not to be confused with the current French author Dominique Fabre.

Fabre started his career as a journalist before becoming a screenwriter. He most frequently worked with film director Étienne Périer. Fabre also wrote three crime novels in the late 1960s and early 1970s.{{Cite book|title=Dictionnaire des littératures policières|date=2007|publisher=Joseph K|others=Mesplède, Claude|isbn=9782910686444|edition=Éd. revue, mise à jour et augmentée|location=Nantes|oclc=470985177}} Later in his life, he wrote mostly for television.

Fabre died in Pfeffikon on 20 December 2010, at the age of 81.{{cite web |title=Dominique Fabre (1929–2010) |url=https://data.bnf.fr/fr/11902104/dominique_fabre/ |website=BnF |access-date=17 November 2023}}