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Didier Decoin, Goncourt Prize-winning French novelist and screenwriter, dies

Awarded the prestigious literary prize in 1977 for his novel John l'Enfer, Decoin, whose father was one of the great postwar film directors, regarded the prize as a second birth.

Didier Decoin, Goncourt Prize-winning French novelist and screenwriter, dies

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