Book lovers will have the chance to meet with writer Michel Bussi, who is called “the detective king” of contemporary French literature, at the Da Nang General Science Library next Monday, October 31.

French writer Michel Bussi (Photo:Getty Images)

The French Institute in Da Nang-held meeting will come on the occasion of the launch of the Vietnamese translation of the novel ‘Who Killed the Little Prince”, a thriller signed Michel Bussi.

The novel ‘Who Killed the Little Prince’ was inspired by the disappearance of the writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and the death of the Little Prince in the work of the same name.

Antoine disappeared around the time of World War II. A few months before his disappearance, Antoine wrote Little Prince. At the end of the story, the Little Prince dies. Both Antoine’s body and the character’s body were never found. Realising that there are many similarities between the work and the writer’s real life, Bussi came up with an idea for the book.

Michel Bussi was born in 1965 in France, is a writer, political researcher, lecturer in Geography at the University of Rouen. In January 2019, according to the GFK ranking of Le Figaro, Bussi was the second best-selling French writer (nearly one million copies in 2018).

He has six books that have been published in Viet Nam: Code 612: Who killed the Little Prince?, Black water lily, Cursed Treasure, Carvings in the sand, Please don’t let go, Mom was wrong.

Reporting by X.D - Translating by A.THU