Hugues Pagan

Hugues Pagan (born 1947) is a French detective writer and television writer.

Early life Hugues Pagan was born in 1947 in Orléansville, French Algeria (now Algeria). His father was a postman who also served in the Military reserve forces of France, and his mother was a school principal. He earned bachelor's degrees in sociology, psychology and philosophy, followed by a master's degree. He became a policeman in Nancy in 1972; he later worked in Belfort. His first novel, La Mort dans une voiture solitaire, was published in 1982. In 2017, he used the same protagonist as the one in his first novel, Charles Schneider, in Profil perdu.

Pagan is also a television writer; he has written for Police District Un flic, Mafiosa and Nicolas Le Floch.

Personal life Pagan resides in Charente-Maritime.

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