Belgian novelist Henri Vernes, born Charles-Henri Dewisme, passed away this Sunday, his publisher Le Lombard announced on Monday on his website. Born in Ath, October 16, 1918, he would celebrate his 103 years in the fall.
“He is the author of more than 230 adventure novels, often mixed with science fiction, taking place all over the world, even in parallel universes or in the arcana of space-time (the Cycle of Time) “,
recalls the RTBF this Monday. But it is the adventures of his hero Bob Morane that remain the best known, immortalized in particular in the words of a famous song from Indochina. The Adventurer.
Almost 40 million copies of Bob Morane books have been sold worldwide. His series of more than 200 novels has also been adapted into comics.
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