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- Claude Durand was born on November 9, 1938 in Livry-Gargan, Seine-Saint-Denis, France. He was an editor and writer, known for Le coup de grâce (1965), On vous parle (1960) and Madame se meurt (1961). He was married to Carmen. He died on May 6, 2015 in Paris, France.
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- Director of publisher Fayard from 1980 to 2009, he was before, with his wife Carmen Perea Jimenez, a translator of Spanish to French and so brought "Cent Ans de solitude" by Gabriel García Márquez to this public. He was also the agent of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn from 1974 to 2008 after having published "L'Archipel du Goulag". He wrote many books and won the prix Médicis in 1979.
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