![]() "Pierre Boulle was profoundly Anglophile," says Jean Loriot, who heads the Association of Friends of Pierre Boulle. And in World War Two he served as an undercover agent for the Special Operations Executive (SOE).įor The Bridge on the River Kwai he was writing of a world he knew well. ![]() From the mid-1930s he was a rubber planter for a British company in Malaysia. Pierre Boulle died in Paris in 1994, after a writing career that spanned more than 40 years and resulted in some 30 novels and collections of short stories.īut it was his life before taking up the pen that shaped his literary outlook. How on earth could it have been written by a Frenchman? And how did that same Frenchman then move from wartime adventure to the world of science fiction for his second Hollywood triumph? ![]() A book on the face of it so quintessentially British - about a British colonel and his conception of duty and honour. It turns out that Pierre Boulle was also the man behind another cinema great - none other than The Bridge on the River Kwai. ![]() It was in his 1963 novel La Planete des Singes (Planet of the Apes).īut there's more. He was the French author who first had the brilliant idea of humans travelling in time and stumbling on ape civilisation. Today few people have heard of Pierre Boulle. ![]() Before the newly released Dawn of the Planet of the Apes film, there was a long franchise going back to the first Apes movie - the 1968 classic with Charlton Heston. ![]()
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