A. D. G.
French novelist and journalist
Alain Camille (né Fournier; December 19, 1947 – November 1, 2004), known by his pen name A.D.G. (the initials of Alain Dreux-Gallou), was a French novelist and journalist.
For about ten years, A.D.G. was one of the leading authors of the Série Noire collection published by Gallimard. He represented a right-wing, even far-right, political sensibility—a stance that became more pronounced in the 1980s when he became the main organizer for the National Front in New Caledonia. This position set him apart within the French noir fiction revival of the 1970s, a movement largely dominated by writers with leftist, far-left, or anarchist leanings, such as Jean-Patrick Manchette, another prominent figure of the Série Noire during that decade. Whether in the titles of his crime novels or in his journalistic columns, he was also known for his fondness for wordplay.
Life
A.D.G. was born on December 19, 1947, in Tours. After joining a military boarding school at the age of twelve and leaving the school system with only a BEPC (lower secondary education certificate), he began his working life as an employee at Crédit Lyonnais. He then went on to work as a secondhand bookseller and antiques dealer.
For some time, he was close to the polemicist Michel-Georges Micberth, who led the Jeune Force Poétique Française (Young French Poetic Force), and became his collaborator and literary director at the JFPF publishing house (from 1966 to 1971), where he wrote under the pseudonym "Alain Dreux-Gallou"—Dreux and Gallou being the surnames of two of his grandparents. His real name posed difficulties for use literature, due to its similarity to that of the well-known author Alain-Fournier, so he kept the initials of his pseudonym—A.D.G.—always written with three periods, as his pen name, he considered switching to the name Alain Camille, but quickly reverted to his original signature.
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