Dominique Lapierre
- Dominique Lapierre, the French author who wrote ‘City of Joy’ – the iconic book on Kolkata – has passed away on 4 December 2022.
- After the success of the novel, Lapierre set up the City of Joy Foundation and donated a large share of his royalties to it to support humanitarian projects in West Bengal.
- His investigative account, ‘Five Past Midnight in Bhopal: The Epic Story of the World’s Deadliest Industrial Disaster’, written in collaboration with Javier Moro, traced the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy and the role of Union Carbide in it. The royalties from the sale of the book were directed ....
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