Laurent Laplante was born in 1934 in Verdun, Quebec, Canada.
[2][3] He was also a television and radio presenter,[3] an essayist[2] and the author of 20 books, including detective fiction.
[3] Laplante won the 1996 Olivar-Asselin Award for his defense of the French language in Quebec through his journalism.
[2] Laplante died of pancreatic cancer on March 15, 2017, in Lévis, Quebec.
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