Dominique Lapierre

Dominique Lapierre (La Rochelle, France, July 30, 1931-Sainte-Maxime, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, December 2, 2022) was a French writer, author of the best-sellers The City of Joy, A Thousand Suns, Freedom Tonight, It was midnight in Bhopal and Greater Than Love, several of them in collaboration with Larry Collins. Between 1954 and 1967 he worked as a reporter for the magazine Paris Match .

The City of Joy

His most important and well-known book, The City of Joy (1985), takes place in Calcutta and tells the story of the inhabitants of a miserable shantytown. There, the author spent two years researching and documenting the lives of his neighbors, living with those affected by social inequality, unemployment, disease and misery. The book sold millions of copies in more than thirty languages. Fulfilling a promise, the author donated half of the profits to the inhabitants of the shantytown.^{[citation needed]} He then gave lectures and organized collections that were transferred to India himself supervised, as well as the fulfillment of the works.^{[citation needed]} In addition to works aimed at improving the health of the inhabitants, he carried out irrigation works in the lands of the villages of peasants with few resources.^{[citation needed]}

Based on his book, the film The City of Joy, directed by Roland Joffé, was filmed in 1992.

Works

Novels

• The fifth rider (Le Cinquième Cavalier(1980), with Larry Collins
• The city of joy (The Cité de la joie(1985)
• Bigger than love (Plus grands that l'amour(1990)
• Arde New York? (New York brûle-t-il?(2004), with Larry Collins

Nonfiction

Autobiographies

• Mil soles (Mille soleil(1997), memoirs
• India mon amour (Inde ma bien-aimée(2010), memories

Biographies

• Chessman told me (Chessman m'a dit(1960)
• Or you will mourn for me (Ou your porteras mon deuil(1968), with Larry Collins

History

• Arde Paris? (Paris brûle-t-il?(1965), with Larry Collins
• Oh, Jerusalem (Ô Jérusalem(1972), with Larry Collins
• Tonight freedom (Cette nuit la liberté(1975), with Larry Collins
• It was midnight in Bhopal. (Il était minuit cinq à Bhopal) (2001), with Javier Moro
• A rainbow in the night (An arc-en-ciel dans la nuit) (2008)

Travel

• One dollar a thousand miles (One dollar a thousand pounds.(1949)
• Once upon a time the USSR (Il était une fois l'URSS(2005), with Jean-Pierre Pedrazzini
• Honeymoon Around the World (Lune de honey autour de la Terre) (2005)

Accommodations

• Arde Paris? (1966), film directed by René Clément, based on the book Arde Paris?
• The city of joy (1992), film directed by Roland Joffé, based on the novel The city of joy
• A cloud over Bhopal (2001), documentary directed by Gerardo Olivares and Larry Levene, based on the book It was midnight in Bhopal.
• The last viceroy of India (2017), film directed by Gurinder Chadha, based on the book Tonight freedom