Known For
Writing
Gender
Male
Birthday
September 5, 1920
Died
February 23, 2011
Age
90
Place of Birth
Maisons-Alfort, Val-de-Marne, France
Popularity
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Jean Lartéguy
Writing
Biography
Jean Lartéguy (5 September 1920 in Maisons-Alfort – 23 February 2011) was the pen name of Jean Pierre Lucien Osty, a French writer, journalist, and former soldier. Larteguy is credited with first envisioning the "ticking time bomb" scenario of torture in his 1960 novel Les centurions. Lartéguy was born into what he called "one of those families of poor mountain peasants whose names are found inscribed on war memorials, but not in history books" in Maisons-Alfort, Val-de-Marne. Both his father and uncle had served in the First World War. With his country conquered by the Germans, Lartéguy esc…
Also known as
Jean Larteguy · Jean Pierre Lucien Osty
