Hugues Pagan
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Hugues Pagan (born 1947) is a French detective writer and television writer.
Early life
Hugues Pagan was born in 1947 in Orléansville, French Algeria (now Algeria).{{cite news|last1=Tourancheau|first1=Patricia|title=Hugues Pagan, le patron du polar, est de retour|url=http://www.lexpress.fr/culture/livre/hugues-pagan-le-patron-du-polar-est-de-retour_1891921.html|accessdate=20 May 2017|work=L'Express|date=25 March 2017}} His father was a postman who also served in the Military reserve forces of France, and his mother was a school principal.{{cite news|last1=Prolongeau|first1=Hubert|title=Hugues Pagan, le retour du flic au stylo|url=http://www.telerama.fr/livre/hugues-pagan-le-retour-du-flic-au-stylo,156121.php|accessdate=20 May 2017|work=Télérama|date=3 April 2017}} He earned bachelor's degrees in sociology, psychology and philosophy, followed by a master's degree.
Career
Pagan taught philosophy in Gérardmer from 1967 to 1970.{{cite news|last1=Tourancheau|first1=Patricia|title=Hugues Pagan, 50 ans, ex-inspecteur divisionnaire, s'est reconverti dans le polar pour se guérir de ses années flic. Ex-Flic Story|url=http://www.liberation.fr/portrait/1997/11/25/hugues-pagan-50-ans-ex-inspecteur-divisionnaire-s-est-reconverti-dans-le-polar-pour-se-guerir-de-ses_220618|accessdate=20 May 2017|work=Libération|date=25 November 1997}} He became a policeman in Nancy in 1972; he later worked in Belfort. By 1988, he was an investigator in the 1988 Gare de Lyon rail accident. He resigned in 1991.
Pagan is the author of detective novels.{{cite news|last1=Séry|first1=Macha|title=Hugues Pagan, retour au polar|url=http://www.lemonde.fr/livres/article/2017/04/01/hugues-pagan-retour-au-polar_5104301_3260.html|accessdate=20 May 2017|work=Le Monde|date=1 April 2017}} His first novel, La Mort dans une voiture solitaire, was published in 1982. He won the Prix Mystère de la critique for Dernière station avant autoroute in 1998.{{cite web|title=Palmarès du Prix Mystère de la critique|url=http://www.lalettredulibraire.com/Palmar%C3%A8s-du-Prix-Myst%C3%A8re-de-la-critique|website=La lettre du libraire|accessdate=20 May 2017}} In 2017, he used the same protagonist as the one in his first novel, Charles Schneider, in Profil perdu.
Pagan is also a television writer; he has written for Police District Un flic, Mafiosa and Nicolas Le Floch.
Personal life
Pagan resides in Charente-Maritime.
Works
- {{cite book|last1=Pagan|first1=Hughes|title=La Mort dans une voiture solitaire|date=1982|publisher=Éditions Payot & Rivages|location=Paris}}
- {{cite book|last1=Pagan|first1=Hughes|title=L'Eau du bocal|date=1983|publisher=Éditions Payot & Rivages|location=Paris}}
- {{cite book|last1=Pagan|first1=Hughes|title=Je suis un soir d'été|date=1983|publisher=Éditions Payot & Rivages|location=Paris}}
- {{cite book|last1=Pagan|first1=Hughes|title=Vaines Recherches|date=1983|publisher=Éditions Payot & Rivages|location=Paris}}
- {{cite book|last1=Pagan|first1=Hughes|title=Boulevard des allongés|date=1984|publisher=Éditions Payot & Rivages|location=Paris}}
- {{cite book|last1=Pagan|first1=Hughes|title=Last Affair|date=1985|publisher=Albin Michel|location=Paris}}
- {{cite book|last1=Pagan|first1=Hughes|title=Les Eaux mortes|date=1987|publisher=Éditions Payot & Rivages|location=Paris}}
- {{cite book|last1=Pagan|first1=Hughes|title=L'Étage des morts|date=1990|publisher=Albin Michel|location=Paris}}
- {{cite book|last1=Pagan|first1=Hughes|title=Tarif de groupe|date=1993|publisher=Éditions Payot & Rivages|location=Paris}}
- {{cite book|last1=Pagan|first1=Hughes|title=Dernière station avant l'autoroute|date=1997|publisher=Éditions Payot & Rivages|location=Paris|isbn=9782743602451|oclc=38042958}}
- {{cite book|last1=Pagan|first1=Hughes|title=Profil perdu|date=2017|publisher=Éditions Payot & Rivages|location=Paris|isbn=9782743639358|oclc=978909916}}
References
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