Pierre Lemaitre is a French author and screenwriter known for crime fiction, including the Camille Verhoeven detective series (Alex, Camille). A former literature teacher, he began his writing career in 2006 and won the 2013 Prix Goncourt, France's most prestigious literary prize, for his World War I epic Au revoir la-haut (published in English as The Great Swindle). Several of his novels have also won the CWA International Dagger award.
