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Born in 1925 to a French fortuneteller mother and a Greek engineer father, Pierre Gripari was one the most successful writers for children in twentieth-century France and a prolific author. Les Contes de la rue Broca is his first and most-famous collection of fairy tales. While continuing to write in other genres for both children and adults, he published similar collections until the very end of his life: Histoire du Prince Pipo, de Pipo le cheval, et de la Princesse Popi; Contes de la Folie-Mericourt; and Contes d’ailleurs et d’autre part. A selection of stories from Les Contes de la rue Broca translated by Doriane Grutman was published by Bobbs-Merrill in English in 1967. His contemporary fairy tales have been translated into German, Portuguese, Albanian, Bulgarian, Czech, Estonian, Korean, Hungarian, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Russia, Spanish, Thai, and Vietnamese.
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