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Michel Bussi
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Michel Bussi (miʃɛl bysi; born ) is a French author, known for writing thriller novels, and a political analyst and Professor of Geography at the University of Rouen, where he leads a Public Scientific and Technical Research Establishment (Unité mixte de recherche, "UMR") in the French National Centre for Scientific Research (Centre national de la recherche scientifique, "CNRS"), where he is a specialist in electoral geography.
According to the Le Figaro/GfK list of bestsellers, Bussi was the second bestselling French author of 2018, selling 975,800 copies. He has appeared in the annual top 10 since 2013.
Bussi was born on 29 April 1965 in Louviers, Eure.
Bussi usually publishes a book a year, but they can take several years to become popular. For example, Mourir sur Seine (2008) and Nymphéas Noirs (2011) had only modest initial success, but paperwork editions, serialisations and above all his most popular work Un avion Sans Elle have propelled him into the limelight.
Most of his novels are set in Normandy. His local topicality, together with his teaching and research in Normandy, won him the title of Parrain Officiel (official sponsor) during the 2014 Normandy Festival, a regional festival celebrated throughout Normandy and beyond.
In 2013, Bussi was eighth in the Le Figaro/GfK list of bestsellers
In the early 1990s he wrote his first novel, a thriller set around the Normandy landings, which was rejected by several publishing houses. He then wrote short stories, but they too were rejected. Ten years later, inspired by a trip to Rome at the peak of popularity of Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code and after reading Arsène Lupin by Maurice Leblanc, Bussi returned to Rouen with his IGN papers and resumed work on his manuscript until in 2006, as Code Lupin, it found an academic publisher, Éditions des Falaises. The first manuscript was reworked nine times.
Bussi's first novel, Code Lupin, sold more than copies, and in 2010 was serialised over thirty days by the Paris Normandie daily newspaper.
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