22 September 2018

Le Cimetière parisien d'Ivry, Val-de-Marne (94): #4: Abdel Hafed Benotman


'Abdel Hafed BENOTMAN
1960 – [2015]

'Ça valait pas la peine
mais ça valait le coup !
Enfin libérable...'

Abdel Hafed Benotman was of Algerian descent and wrote detective novels, short stories, poems, songs, plays and film scenarios. He was guilty of many thefts and bank robberies and spent several occasions behind bars. He was born in France and spent his childhood in the Latin Quarter. Later, he set up theatre workshops for various groups of people: psychotic children, elderly people, delinquants, and the handicapped. Back in prison in 1990, his collection of short stories, Les Forcenés, was published in 1993. 

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