Pierre Lemaitre (born 19 April 1951) is a Prix Goncourt-winning French author and a screenwriter, internationally renowned for the crime novels featuring the fictional character Commandant Camille Verhœven.

[1][3] In November 2013, he was awarded the Prix Goncourt, France's top literary prize, for Au revoir là-haut (published in English as The Great Swindle), an epic about World War I.

[4] His novels Camille and The Great Swindle won the CWA International Dagger in 2015 and 2016 respectively.

[5][6] Pierre Lemaitre worked as a teacher in literature and now devotes his time writing novels and screenplays.

[7] Camille Verhœven series: Les Enfants du désastre trilogy: Les Années Glorieuses, tetralogy: Stand-alones: Les Enfants du désastre series: Camille Verhœven series (with Pascal Bertho, illustrated by Yannick Corboz):