Jean-Hugues Oppel is the author of black novels and children’s books.
Of Franco-Swiss origin, he studied at the Lycée Charlemagne in Paris, then obtained a BTS cinematographic Image at the National School of Operators Louis-Lumière.
This allowed him, in 1979, to become intermittent in the entertainment industry as an operator and director of cinema and television. He worked as a second camera assistant for films like Saxo Ariel Zeitoun (1987), Lacenaire by Francis Girod (1990), The Beatrice Passion (1987) and Life and nothing else (1988) by Bertrand Tavernier. He was also Roman Polanski’s first camera assistant for The girl and death (1994).
In 1983, he started writing black novels, first together with Philippe Dorison for his first novel. Canine et Gun“then alone for his parody novel Barjot! (1988).
After his debut in the Black Series, Jean-Hugues Oppel arrived at Rivages where his novels won almost all the thriller prizes in France, including the Grand prix for detective literature in 1996 for Ambernave.
Kitten: trilogy, released in 2002 – a story of a hired killer in the service of politicians – is rewarded twice by the Polar Polar Prize of Cognac and the “Blood of Ink” Prize for high school students in Vienna, the work initiates a thematic trilogy followed by French Tabloïds (2005) and Wake up the president (2007).
His last three novels, 19,500 dollars per ton, Total labrador and Black diamond , which combine noir novel and espionage are published by the Manufacture des livres.
In parallel with his career as a novelist and short story writer, Jean-Hugues Oppel forged a solid reputation as a youth author, from 1993 on, with nearly twenty publications by Père Castor, Syros and Albin Michel.
He is a great fan of cinema, cigars, motorcycles, cats and redheads, which can be found in his stories.
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