Albert Simonin

Albert Simonin (1905 - 1980) was a Scénariste and a writer French of detective novels.

Biography

Author of a dictionary of Slang published in 1957, Albert Simonin is known to have reproduced in his novels the speech of the hooligans with a great preoccupation of exactitude and a precision. This characteristic gives today to its work a very as well dated air it is true as this form of expression is subjected to a rapid obsolescence. However, its great merit is to have legitimated of it the use in literature and thus opened the way with other authors, such as Frederic Dard or Jean Vautrin, which will use then of this freedom with abundance and great pleasure.

Wire of a florist, born in Paris, Albert Simonin leaves the elementary school to become, at 12 years, banner then successively electrician, stove setter and negotiating in pearls. Journalist with the Intransigent , it is charged with the sports column. Taxi driver, it draws from his experiment a fictionalized report, Voilà the Taxi . Returned with journalism, it holds with the intransigent a daily chronicle, the Billet of the Man in the street and gives to Voilà and Détective a series of reports on the secret life of Paris. After a few years devoted to technical activities of page layout, it publishes, in 1953, Touchez not in Grisbi .

This first work which is also its greater success, Touchez not with the grisbi! , brings the celebrity to him as of her publication in 1953. It is about the first shutter of a nostalgic trilogy devoted to a growing old gangster, max the liar, who will be carried to the cinema by Jacques Becker the following year. This film adaptation is an exceptional homage to the novel from which it is drawn, while those that will make Gilles Grangier Cave rebiffe in 1961 and Georges Lautner of Grisbi gold not grisbi in 1963 under the title the Uncles flingueurs are on the other hand very inaccurate. However the principal screen of the stories told by Albert Simonin and the liveliness of the " are found there; language verte" under the feather of Michel Audiard, these two novels black being transformed into comedies trufféés of the famous counterparts of the dialogist to the very personal style.

In 1973, Albert Simonin writes his second trilogy ( Hotu, Hotu is freed, Hotu is which badly thinks of it) that it locates in the the Twenties in order to dissociate production of the moment. In its last novel Elegant the , also published in 1973, a prisoner released after ten years of prison redécouvre with sadness Paris which he does not recognize any more. It is devoted then to the writing of an autobiography, Confessions of a child of the Vault (1977), where it describes his district (well pauper) beginning of century, manners prole , the fortifs, the small traffics, its first loves, its entry (painful!) in the work world, worthy of the novel of Celine " Died with crédit" The dictionary whose Albert Simonin is the author, Littré of the slang - dictionary of use (1957) was published again in 1968 under the title Small Simonin illustrated by the example accompanied by a lexicon slang-French.

He dies in February 1980.

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