Hervé Gaillet
Hervé Gaillet is a novelist and blogger. He has published five detective novels in which the writer Pierre Benoit takes on the role of an amateur detective in a novelistic way ( Derrière les lignes – 2017 Prix AlterPublishing 2017; Une Belle pour le Solilloque – 2019, Code Ancolie – 2020, Pierre Benoit mène l'enquête and Pierre Benoit face au crime – 2023). He is a member of the Association des Amis de Pierre Benoit and regularly contributes to its annual Cahiers.
Hervé Gaillet won the 2021 Pierre Benoit Prize from the Académie française for his book Pierre Benoît , also published by AlterPublishing in November 2020.
Hervé Gaillet - Pierre Benoit, differently
Writer, novelist, poet, journalist and academic (1931), Pierre Benoit enchanted millions of readers from the early 1920s to the late 1950s. Until now, contributions to the knowledge and analysis of the author and his works have been mainly biographical and stylistic, favored by the whimsical and picturesque personality of the man as much as by the fascination exerted by the author's romantic plots and heroines.
Through ten chronicles, Pierre Benoit, otherwise takes a different look, always curious, often unexpected and sometimes unusual at little-known or little-studied aspects of the personality of this author and the posterity of his work.
Pierre Benoit Prize of the French Academy 2021.