Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more information. French author who collaborated with his countryman, Pierre Ayraud (aka Thomas Narcejac), to write crime fiction as Boileau-Narcejac. In 1938 he was awarded on of the most important literary awards in France the Prix du Roman d'Aventures, for Le Repos de Bacchus . It is given to the author of the best example of detective fiction in the world each year. He met Narcejac in 1948 at the awards dinner when Narcejac received the same award for one of his novels.